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What got the government on edge also seeped through to the public. The State Department issued two warnings about possible overseas attacks. The FBI chipped in with an alert for mail bombs, further raising the temperature. A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll on Thursday found that 62% of citizens surveyed believe terrorism is likely by New Year's Eve. Yet at the same time, official after official trotted out with reassuring words to soothe the jitters. "The authorities are on a higher level of alert," said President Clinton, the nation's Calmer in Chief, but ordinary people ought to go ahead...
...contributor Dr. Ian Smith. "But it's difficult to strike a balance between the need to teach residents and interns the procedures they need to know to save people's lives with the need to provide patients with unwavering comfort of care, right to life, empathy and respect." These two positions are neatly represented in Thursday's report; of 234 residents and interns interviewed, two-thirds felt the tube-threading procedure should not be performed. The remaining doctors disagreed, saying the maneuver would help them learn, and treat future patients better. "This process brings up something people are uncomfortable with...
...They estimate fewer than 10 percent of all Y2K-related failures will occur during the first two weeks of January, with 55 percent of them spread throughout the whole coming year...
...Mario Puzo joined us for lunch and mentioned how he used to play three wishes as a kid but had now reduced them to one: "To die in my sleep." These two good friends did exactly that. It makes the grieving a little bit easier when people get what they wish...
...African wildcat, last week became the first mammal to be born from a frozen embryo implanted in a house cat. But she's not the first rare animal to use a common species' womb. A bongo antelope was born to an eland in 1984 at the Cincinnati Zoo, and two Holsteins, one in Cincinnati and one at the Bronx Zoo, have given birth to gaur, a rare species of wild cattle...