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...fired off a few zingers, although nothing personally nasty. His numbers, which had been sliding, have stabilized. Weld, after huffing and puffing his way through a 5-K race in Quincy, was overheard telling a supporter as he chugged a bottle of Power-Ade, "It's a dead heat. And that's pretty disconcerting." Except to lovers of political suspense...
...running on such non-Democratic issues as term limits and a balanced budget, and has come out against gays in the military. Cleland has also distanced himself from President Clinton, who is not particularly popular in the state (polls show Clinton and Dole in a statistical dead heat). At the same time Cleland is reaching out to the Democratic base by supporting abortion rights and tying his opponent to the "extremist" Republican leadership in Congress. Democrats need to "stay in the sensible center" to win, Cleland says. "People want commonsense government...
...black night heat, brilliant tungsten lamps spotlighted ranks of Abrams tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles and Humvees lining the draw yard at Camp Doha, as the first of 3,500 jet-lagged soldiers from Texas slung their gear aboard and revved the engines for the long drive into the desert. They were on a "combat time line," moving straight into battle position as if Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard troops were really advancing. "We are here to send a signal, and that signal is 'We are ready,'" said Colonel Robert C. Pollard. With its buildup in Kuwait last week...
...rich coloration, their loss causes entire reefs to turn white. The stress that caused the recent bleachings, scientists say, was a seasonal spike in seawater temperatures. But other sources of stress, such as overfishing and nutrient overload, may have made the corals and their symbiotic friends unusually sensitive to heat...
...access to RU-486, whose chemical name is mifepristone. It has been available in Europe since 1988, but the French manufacturer, Roussel Uclaf, fearing harassment by militant antiabortionists, refused to market it in the U.S. In 1994, though, the New York City-based Population Council offered to take the heat and acquired the drug's American patent rights. After two years of clinical trials, the organization applied to the FDA for permission to sell the drug. In July an advisory committee recommended approval...