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...minute, stepping lightly over obstacles up to 4 ft. high. Eight on- board video cameras enable scientists to view the terrain. Even more useful is a laser-ranging system -- a sort of light-based radar -- that makes 30,000 distance measurements every second and generates a virtual-reality computer image of the landscape. Says Bares: "It gives us a very complete picture of what's around...
Hundreds of thousands of Hutu refugees fled from advancing Tutsi-led rebels, crossing the frontier into Zaire at a rate of up to 30,000 an hour. The rebels now control three-quarters of the country, including the capital of Kigali, a virtual ghost town without water, electricity or food. The rebels say they are willing to share power with their enemy, the ethnic Hutu majority, to form a new government because as much as half of Rwanda's Tutsi population has been massacred...
...fear. Criminal gangs have transformed a city that during the days of the Soviet police state was one of the safest in the world into a virtual criminopolis. Last year in Moscow police reported more than 3,000 murders -- an increase of 1,740% since 1987. Those seven years also introduced a rash | of previously unheard-of crimes, such as contract assassinations (about 100 last year) and murders by bombing (which the police now call "good-morning murders" because the explosions usually go off around dawn). A presidential study has concluded that virtually every retail trade booth, store, cafe...
...that the Federal Reserve is raising interest rates out of fear that the economy is creating too many new jobs too fast. And the Clinton Administration has supported these Fed moves. According to Bob Woodward's new book, The Agenda, Fed chairman Alan Greenspan has become Bill Clinton's virtual economic tutor...
...phase of affirmative action that helps blacks move up the career ladder in crime as they have in other professions. Big-time financial crime is, after all, one of the last great bastions of racial inequality. Why should a small number of white financiers have a virtual monopoly on the only crime that really pays...