Word: containment
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Most Americans can be forgiven if they have forgotten--assuming they ever knew--that the U.S. has been at war with Iraq. A year ago, as the U.N. weapons-inspection program in Iraq collapsed, President Clinton announced that the U.S. would not only "contain" Saddam's threat to the rest of the world but also work to "change" the brutal regime in Baghdad. Clinton also signed the Republican-sponsored Iraq Liberation Act, which allowed him to supply Iraqi opposition groups with as much as $97 million worth of military equipment and training. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright appointed veteran foreign...
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...fire, however, proved easy to contain and extinguish. CFD reported that the fire damaged a set of architectural drawings on a desk. Most of the damage was either smoke- or water-related...
...Founded in 1985 to hold Harvard's collection of Asian, Ancient, Islamic, and Indian art, the Sackler is the newest addition to the Harvard University Museums. The holdings contain one of the best jade collections in the country, as well an extensive representation of early Chinese bronzes (most notably a series of three ritual bells from the late Chou dynasty). Also particularly strong are the ancient Greek vases, with exquisite exa.m.ples of both red-figure and black-figure techniques. Not to be missed: the beautifully preserved and delicately painted Japanese hand-scroll depicting "The Tale of the Rat." Currently...
...predisposition from breast cancer to sugar addiction - a group of California doctors claim to have found the DNA strand responsible for the industrialized world's number one killer, heart failure. In a report released Thursday, the team of UC San Diego doctors told of mating mice genetically engineered to contain the gene phospholamban, or PLB, which they believed was responsible for heart failure, with mice that lacked the PLB gene. The resulting offspring did not develop heart failure. They also created mice carrying a defective form of PLB; in that experiment, the offspring produced by mating those mice with...