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Military. The peace accord will include complex rules to be enforced by an Implementation Force (I-FOR) of 60,000 NATO troops, some of whom will begin arriving in Bosnia within days of an agreement. I-FOR will be instructed to separate the warring armies in Bosnia along 4-km...
What could have caused such indiscriminate carnage? Marauding comets, exploding stars, greenhouse warming, ice-age cooling, sea-level drops, sea-level rises, ocean stagnation, oxygen depletion--every calamity imaginable has been invoked to explain the Permian extinction. But none of these agents of doom, argues geologist Paul Renne, director of...
According to Renne, these traps (from trappa, the Swedish word for stairs) are composed mainly of glassy basalt, laid down by huge rivers of flowing lava. But amid the basalt, which extends across an area of a million square miles, scientists have also found telltale pieces of tuff, a type...
A significant factor in the increase in bombings is that the dissemination of bomb know-how has become a minor industry. The past few decades have produced the rise of mail-order publishing companies that serve the so-called gun aftermarket, including the gun fanciers, survivalists, wannabe cops and closet...
"[Early in the game] we got a lot offense out of our defense--our traps seemed to get some easy baskets," junior forward Mike Gilmore said. "But Hartford crept back into it by halftime."