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...season and dripping fogs during the dry season nurture a slick algae that add a treacherous coating to rocks and other surfaces. That may explain why the Vu Quang ox evolved narrow, two-toed hooves with a concave area on the bottom that could give the animal a better grip on the terrain...
...naysayers. These experts say the communist Kims are poor and isolated. They have lost most of their supporters in the world, are crunched up against giant Russia and China, and cannot hope to match South Korea's economic performance. All they have to defend their regime and their own grip on power is the nuclear program, which is popular at least with the armed forces, and they do not propose to give...
Getting a Grip on Haiti...
...have been a case of driver error? "Ayrton Senna made a mistake," Carweek magazine quoted Williams-Renault technical director Patrick Head as saying. "We have checked the telemetry. He slightly lifted his foot just at that dip in the place where the tarmac changes. That caused a loss of grip from the car." A Williams spokesman later denied that Head said Senna had made a mistake...
...surprise was not that the election was carried out well but that it happened at all. Here was a white government, still with a monopoly grip on political power, handing over control of the country to the black majority it had held in servitude for 300 years. It was an event without historical precedent in the days of sweeping decolonization in Africa three decades ago, or even in 1980 when the former British colony of Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, because 5 million former rulers are not leaving...