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...said a perplexed member of the force. "I don't know that it makes any difference, but it's weird for your chief to be pregnant." Not to worry, Watson replied. As she did during her first two pregnancies, she plans to work up to and including the delivery date. She will designate an acting chief for her brief absence from duty. Even then, Watson promised, "I'll only be a phone call away...
This month Little, Brown will publish Khrushchev on Khrushchev, by Nikita's son Sergei, 55, an engineer in Moscow. This intimate portrait shows the deposed leader in his last years watching with dismay as his reforms are overturned. Now his son offers the most detailed and authoritative account to date of how the "special pensioner" was able to conduct his own defiant experiment in glasnost -- and why he had decided to brave the anger of his former comrades...
Uranium-thorium has another advantage besides accuracy: it can be used to date objects up to 500,000 years old, while carbon 14 is good for only a few tens of thousands of years at best. The one drawback of the uranium-thorium technique is that it is useful mostly for marine animals and plants; uranium is more common in seawater than on the surface of the land. Scientists will no doubt continue to use all possible dating methods in the quest to construct an ever more accurate chronology of the earth's history...
...within Solidarity itself precipitates a political crisis. Trade-union leader Lech Walesa, who has made no secret of his presidential ambitions, has been pushing for elections even earlier than next year, which is when the government proposes they be held. But Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki opposes moving up the date, arguing that a campaign now would distract attention from economic reforms...
Even as the June 12 hearing date approached, the beleaguered Durenberger's situation worsened slightly. In filing a required financial report last week, Durenberger disclosed for the first time that he received free lodging in a friend's condominium in Florida for 35 days during the past five years. Senate rules demand that such "gifts" be reported; Durenberger later recommended the friend for a federal job. His report also listed a $484,332 bank loan to buy a town house in McLean, Va., a transaction first revealed in news accounts and not mentioned in the Senator's previous financial statements...