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Structurally, observes McGinnis, insect eyes are very different from the eyes of humans and other vertebrates. For instance, fruit-fly eyes are compound, meaning they are composed of many (in this case 800) individual units, each with its own miniature lens. The difference between a mouse eye, say, and a fruit-fly eye is so enormous that many scientists have argued that the genetic programs responsible for creating different kinds of eyes must have evolved independently...
...revelations about trouble in the Airborne reopened an earlier wound. In 1994 Canada was shocked by the courts martial of nine members of the unit for torturing and killing a 16-year-old Somali boy who had trespassed on their compound in Belet Huen while he was looking for food. One of the troopers was sentenced to five years in prison; the other eight were either acquitted or are appealing lesser charges. During the pretrial investigation, officials discovered that a handful of soldiers in the Airborne, calling themselves the Rebels, had adopted the Confederate flag as their banner and openly...
...patriot movement was galvanized by two events: the bloody face-off in rural Idaho between white separatist Randy Weaver and law-enforcement officials in 1992 and the fiery siege of the Waco, Texas, compound of cult leader David Koresh in 1993. The violent confrontations helped convince many would-be militia members that the U.S. government was repressive as well as violently antigun and untrustworthy. "The Waco thing really woke me up," says Frank Swan, 36, a trucker who is a member of a militia in Montana. "They went in there and killed women and children...
...enough that the Clinton Administration unilaterally stopped enforcing the embargo last month, leaving the NATO allies holding the bag in the Adriatic. Dole would compound the damage to the alliance -- and to embargoes that we care about, such as that against Iraq -- by actually breaking the embargo over British and French objections. And embargo busting is more than just damaging. It is by now ridiculous. The Bosnian government, for whose sake we would presumably be breaking ranks, itself gave up the demand 10 weeks ago. In late September the Clinton Administration, under congressional pressure, was quite prepared...
Breslow worked on the action mechanism of the thiamine vitamin and later made his most important discovery working with the cyclopropenone compound, Westheimer said In addition to his responsibilities in the AGS and at Columbia, Breslow serves on Rockefeller University's Board of Trustees and on the editorial boards of a dozen scientific publications...