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...could it really be that all the centuries of scientific discovery and technical ingenuity that led to the computer and modem were just laying the groundwork for someone to transmit messages like "Cockle Doodle DOOO" and "Can we undress...
...groundwork for last week's raids had been laid two months earlier, when the U.N. "safe havens" of Srebrenica and Zepa were overrun by the Bosnian Serbs. The inability of nato and the U.N. to prevent the fall of either town, despite their pledges to protect it, galvanized the allies' resolve to ensure that nothing like that would happen again. "The fall of Srebrenica was a blow to the credibility of the West, and we are the leader of the West," said a senior State Department official. "If we didn't respond with U.S. leadership, the situation was going...
...candidates have their campaigns well under way, while others have not yet begun to lay down the groundwork for their bids...
Speaker of the House Gingrich laid the groundwork for the stunning Republican landslide last November with his Contract with America, a list of proposals which would be voted on in the first 100 day should the GOP win control of Congress...
...prosecution in theO.J. Simpson trialtoday began laying the groundwork for the crucial DNA testimony in the case that may establish thetrail of bloodtying Simpson to the crime scene. Dr. Robin Cotton, director of the nation's largest independent DNA forensic laboratory, gave jurors whatTIME Los Angeles correspondent James Willwerthcalls "a very user-friendly lesson on what DNA is and how DNA testing is done." Their purpose, says Willwerth, is "to demonstrate the DNA testing is science rather than voodoo," as the defense will assert...