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Early resignation was not how Yeltsin wanted to go. In his farewell speech he stressed that he had dearly hoped to stay on until the end of his term, next June, and to hand over power in keeping with the timetable laid down by the constitution. But, he said, "I have come to understand that it is necessary" to leave early. There is a new "powerful man, worthy of being President," he said, referring to Putin. The speech left the eerie impression of a despondent leader who had been persuaded, gently but firmly, that it was time to go. This...
...stormed the Moscow headquarters of Transneft, the Russian oil-pipeline monopoly, and installed a new CEO of the Kremlin's liking, Putin did not intervene. A charitable observer, Mikhail Berger, editor of the Segodnya daily, suggests that he will turn out to be a "free marketeer...with a strong hand. 'Disciplined reform' may be the best way of putting...
...babies fail the two-step screen, most prove on further examination to be just fine. Is it worth worrying 17 families of perfectly normal children--not to mention asking them to spend several hundred dollars on advanced tests--to identify three infants with hearing loss? On the other hand, what if you are the parent of a child whose disability might otherwise not be detected...
...hand wringing over what happened to NASA's Mars Polar Lander [SPACE, Dec. 20]? The Martians took one look at the ugly contraption, said, "There goes the neighborhood," and zapped it. It's as obvious as the noses on my face. FORREST G. WOOD Bakersfield, Calif...