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...that acting president Putin has a commanding lead over his likely rivals - former prime minister Yevgeny Primakov, Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov and ultra-nationalist fringe candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky. But although Russia's campaign in Chechnya has propelled Putin from obscurity to presidential front-runner, setbacks on the military front could hurt his approval ratings. "Chechnya has been Putin's only political calling card, and so far it's worked for him," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "But his backers are well aware that any setbacks there could sink him just as quickly as it carried him to the very...
...they are suffering from myriad heart problems, and they seem to be more prone to lung cancer. A study released Wednesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute finds that a gene thought to cause lung cancer is active in more women than men. Researchers speculate that this could explain why women smokers are more than twice as likely to develop lung cancer than their male smoking counterparts...
...thing politicians hate, it's a public inclined to reserve judgment. Presidential hopefuls are no exception: They want voters to make up their minds and defend their candidate to the end. But unfortunately for politicos looking for firebrand support, there's some indication that the American public could be settling in for a long, calm consideration of the upcoming campaign. According to a poll released Wednesday by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, voters today are less sure of who they'll vote for in November than they were three months ago. And while...
...will intersect the Earth's orbit at a moment when the Earth is there." And should scientists discover such a scenario looming on the horizon, Jaroff says there are many ways to engage, deflect or destroy the giant rocks, including the controlled use of nuclear bombs, whose blasts could nudge the asteroids off their collision course with Earth. While all this research costs a taxpayers pretty penny, Jaroff points out the money is really pretty insignificant, especially when "the alternative is total annihilation...
...into a well-publicized standoff with New York City's Time Warner Cable (which, like TIME Online, is owned by Time Warner), prompting Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to demand that Time Warner add two Fox channels. But the effectiveness of the networks' tactics is uncertain. Some industry analysts say Fox could force Cox's hand by prompting local residents to switch to satellite service. Cable's defenders argue that once cable companies package telephone and Internet services, which is already beginning to happen, these tactics will be less effective, since consumers will be less inclined to give up one-stop telecommunications...