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...where was Bush? The answer: bonefishing in Florida. The argument over military intervention aside, there was nothing to stop Washington from dispatching planeloads of humanitarian aid to the borders. The U.S. surely had stockpiles of food, tents and medicine at hand in southern Iraq, not to mention plenty of transport. In January it gave a drop-in-the-ocean $1 million to the Red Cross and Red Crescent to study setting up refugee camps in southern Iraq when U.S. forces leave. That was about...
Some intelligence experts suspect that the truth lies somewhere in between: Tehran may have agreed to give sanctuary to Iraqi transport and civilian planes, about 20 of which fled to Iran even before the air war began in mid- January. Once it did, the Iranians continued to allow transport planes from Iraq to land in their territory unimpeded. But when Iraqi MiGs and Su-24s began to cross over as well, Iran's air-defense system went on alert, some of the planes were chased away by Iranian fighters, and two of them, according to British intelligence, were shot down...
...said that she and co-workers found a strong correlation between drugs which inhibit dopamine transport, such as cocaine, and drugs which inhibit cocaine binding...
Drugs used during the research, many of which were similar in structure or chemical actions to cocaine, could be used to combat the effects of cocaine addiction, Bergman said, because such drugs block the dopamine signal, and thus the ability of cocaine to bind to the transport system...
...sharing partnership." That's how Boeing chairman Frank Shrontz describes arrangements like the one between his company and Germany's Deutsche Airbus/ Deutsche Aerospace, which announced plans for a joint research effort last week. The risk the two giant jetmakers may share: development of a supersonic high-speed civil transport, an updated and larger Concorde-type airliner that could whisk 300 passengers at twice the speed of sound...