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...Serbs were turned back at the border, leaving them to the face the wrath of the Kosovar Albanians. Although NATO's KFOR peacekeepers have vowed to protect them, the understaffed force isn?t geared up to deal with low-level ethnic cleansing. Instead, Gypsies have been forced to abandon their homes and flee to makeshift refugee camps in some of the major Kosovo towns, where the peacekeepers are able to protect them...
...Most Americans care very much that the Lincoln bedroom has become a Motel 6 where the President of the United States serves as a bellhop," he said. "Most Americans care very much when monks and nuns abandon their vows of poverty and pay tens of thousands of dollars to have spiritual communion with the Vice President...
...Most Americans care very much that the Lincoln bedroom has become a Motel 6 where the President of the United States serves as a bellhop," he said. "Most Americans care very much when monks and nuns abandon their vows of poverty and pay tens of thousands of dollars to have spiritual communion with the Vice President...
...academic specialization and burgeoning subfields, it is unlikely that our concentrations will commit to substantial reductions in course requirements. Nor is it likely that the faculty will abandon the principle that students should commit a significant number of courses to exploring "ways of thinking" outside their concentrations. New discoveries about the natural and physical world, new art forms, and new social developments will call for new disciplines...
...luck. "Say what we will about Mir's jalopy days, next spring will be 14 years for a station intended to last only five," says Kluger. "Most of those years were smooth and uneventful." Now Mir's current crew will be its last. The three cosmonauts will abandon ship in August after installing a new computer allowing ground controllers to command the station remotely. From that point Mir's orbit, currently about 240 miles above Earth, will begin to tighten. When it reaches 125 miles, the Russians will pick an ocean -- unlike Skylab, which NASA dangerously allowed to deorbit itself...