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...sudden deployment in Kosovo, which was a far more serious development in Russian domestic politics than the West realized at the time." Back then the Kremlin found itself playing catch-up as the generals ordered their men to seize Pristina airport, and right now in Chechnya it's unclear if the civilian political leaders or the generals are in charge. "The military is certainly making clear that it plans to finish the job that the Kremlin didn't let it finish in 1996," says Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier...
Predictably, the American Medical Association opposes opening the Data Bank to public eyes, on the grounds that it maintains records of groundless or dismissed malpractice suits, which could unfairly poison a good physician's career. It is unclear whether Bliley has much support for his measure, which has failed to pass Congress in the past. In addition, points out TIME medical correspondent Christine Gorman, the information contained in the Data Bank is largely available from other sources. "In fact," says Gorman, "the government is not always the best source of information. There are lots of reputable Internet sites and consumer...
...emotion of CSNY singing for the slain students at Kent State or energizing Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock" is sadly lacking in Looking Forward. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young may all be "looking forward." But precisely what is unclear, as their album lacks any sense of cohesion or unity of emotion. "Stand and Be Counted," is a catchy call to their generation to question the loss of idealism. "No Tears Left" is solid rock-pop, but overall, despite the presence of Young, Looking Forward decidedly does not rock...
Until the 1970s, though, it was unclear how the proteins knew where to go. Guenter Blobel, a German-born cell and molecular biologist at New York City's Rockefeller University, figured it out--and for solving that mystery, the 63-year-old naturalized American last week won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Medicine...
...important to keep in mind that the Treaty of Versailles was, put simply, a historical disaster. The League of Nations covenant was only one of its many ill-conceived provisions: while noble in theory, the League was so poorly implemented that even had the United States joined, it is unclear whether anything substantive would have come...