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...Director George Tenet is sitting in his seventh-floor office at Langley, Va., sipping coffee at 8:45 a.m., when an aide rushes in: India has just set off a nuclear test explosion. This is terrible news because New Delhi has just blown a giant hole in the campaign to control the spread of atomic weapons, and because the CIA is only learning about it from the press. Tenet's $27 billion-a-year intelligence apparatus, the largest and most sophisticated on the globe, has been humiliatingly blindsided. Nuclear proliferation is supposed to be its top priority, yet neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nukes...They're Back | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...Joanne McAvoy of Alexandria, Va., traded in 130,000 Club Rewards points to give their son Michael, 13, a unique birthday present. In August he will take part in a special five-day space-camp program sponsored by NASA. At one point, he will be put behind the controls of a small two-person propeller plane for 30 minutes and will receive credit toward a private pilot's license. "Our son wants to be a pilot someday, and he is just so excited about taking part in this," says Joanne McAvoy. "I never would have thought you could do something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frequent Surprises | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

Both Muoio and Clever have qualified for the IC4A championships, which will take place next weekend at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: HIGHLIGHTS | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

...only shock was that the defeated faces on the other side of the net were not from Cambridge. VIRGINIA TECH, 5-2 at Burrows-Burleson Tennis Center, Blacksburg, Va...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Unranked Lady Techsters Upset No. 4 Seed W. Tennis at NCAA Regional Tournament | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

...provision that allows actions that protect natural resources. The "enemy" of wildlife and the environment is not free global trade; it is poorly crafted trade policies that sell short the protections in which all citizens of the world have a stake. MARK VAN PUTTEN, President National Wildlife Federation Vienna, Va...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 18, 1998 | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

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