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...withdrawal from its former colony. Indonesia's invasion the following month sent most Fretilin leaders into exile. Ramos-Horta advocates Fretilin's peace plan: a two-year pullback of Indonesian troops and an eventual U.N.-sponsored referendum on self-rule. "We, the East Timorese, are offering an olive branch to Indonesia," Ramos-Horta told TIME last week, describing the process as a way for Indonesia to save face and regain respect. He says his share of the $1.1 million award should have gone to Xanana Gusmao, the Fretilin leader jailed by Indonesia in 1993. Ramos-Horta says Gusmao will determine...
...when three chemists reported that they had stumbled onto a new form of molecular carbon that they believed, but could not prove, had the shape of a soccer ball. Nobody is skeptical anymore. Not only has their theory been confirmed, but it has blossomed into a thriving branch of research. And last week that trio of chemists--Harold Kroto from Britain's University of Sussex, and Robert Curl and Richard Smalley from Rice University in Houston--were rewarded for their work with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry...
...references to Jason. Medicare, Medicaid, environment, education: 7 times California, host state of the debate: At least 7 times. Dole's $550 billion tax "scheme": 2 times. 17 New Taxes, 50 New Bureacracies: 2 "I keep my word": At least 8 times A FEW OF OUR FAVORITE PHRASES: "What branch of the services were you in? And what small business? Good for you." "I'll get out of your way." "I only have 30 seconds. I can't fix statistics." "Wisdom, experience, intelligence comes from age." "We're selling everything from cars to CDs to rice in Japan." "Your targeted...
...then the announcement of the complete genetic identification of an organism that lives at the bottom of the sea in the extreme heat and pressure of a volcanic vent. The headline was that this class of microbe, Archea, represents a completely new branch of life. But classification is not the stuff of passion. The real excitement here is the implication for extraterrestrial life...
...interesting thing about running into Reich is the first you behold an incredibly short, mature adult and then you notice that the incredibly short adult is Robert Reich, one of the most powerful people in the executive branch. Searching desperately for a provocative, newsworthy question to ask him, my mind goes blank. Before I can pull myself together, two HRTV people whisk him away to do an interview. Their camera looks remarkably like the palmcorder my parents received as a gift for their 20th anniversary...