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...halt Chairman Arafat's reveling in resurgent support following his refusal during the Camp David talks to back down on Jerusalem. After all, the Palestinian leader now has to come up with an alternative, and President Clinton issued a sharp warning Friday against Arafat's carrying out his vow to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state. "If it happens, there will inevitably be consequences not just here but throughout the world," Mr. Clinton told an Israeli interviewer. "I mean that things will happen." Indeed, Washington would find it impossible to recognize a Palestinian state declared without Israeli consent...
...Arafat may have boosted his domestic support by standing firm on Jerusalem, but support on the Palestinian street doesn't make the choices he now faces any easier. Arafat had invested everything in the peace process, and has the most to lose by its failure - his vow to declare a state without Israeli agreement come September could potentially plunge the region into a new round of instability, which neither Arafat nor any of his backers will relish...
...does Venter subscribe to the traditional belief that true scientists must take a vow of poverty. When he left the National Institutes of Health to begin his great gene chase, he turned almost overnight from a hardscrabble government scientist with $2,000 in the bank into a yacht- and sports car-owning multimillionaire who threw Gatsby-like parties (last year's income: $560,000, not counting options on Celera stock that were worth, at last week's closing price of $125.25, nearly $351 million). And by declaring his intention to sequence the entire human genome in only a fraction...
...have had calls like that, and I come down hard on people, the same way I come down hard on the guy who says he has the hots for the neighbor next door who wears short shorts. To me, it's the same thing. You made a vow. You have children. They deserve your sacrifice so they can have what they need to grow up because you made your choices already. So, for straight or gay, I would say the exact same thing...
...minds, it's just horrendous," McKean says. Despite the University's vow to extend health and education benefits to its subcontracted workers, many SSI guards may not receive them, since company turnover rates are high...