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...forces Chief of Staff and Defense Secretary who last week called for a "truth commission" to be set up to investigate the so-called Gloriagate tape. A lot of them don't want to wait for the next presidential election, due in 2010, for a shot at power. Their main goal is to seek skeletons in the administration's closet, or, as the palace asserts, fabricate scandals...
...Shan orphans are among the most vulnerable victims of policies hatched in faraway Bangkok and Rangoon. The Shan are the largest of Burma's eight main ethnic minorities, which form a third of the country's 43 million population. Many of the groups are fighting for independence from the rule of the military junta. In recent months, the Burmese army and its proxies have stepped up efforts against ethnic insurgents such as the Shan and the Karen, driving thousands of refugees into Thailand. There, they receive cold comfort. The Thai government does not grant official refugee status to the Shan...
...nuts. The nuts you eat, especially the healthy ones-walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts-have healthy fats in them. Adding a few nuts as snacks before you eat your main meals will satiate you. You'll feel full earlier, and for that reason, you won't eat as much. It's a simple way, without making a huge change in your lifestyle. The other thing that "nuts" stand for is "nagging unfinished tasks." There are two kinds of stress that age us. There are the big life events-your mom dies. Everyone acknowledges that those are big issues for humans to cope...
Accordingly, among the most intent observers were some 20 members of Congress, including two of the law's chief sponsors, Republican Senators Phil Gramm of Texas and Warren Rudman of New Hampshire, and one of its main opponents, Congressman Mike Synar, the Oklahoma Democrat who with eleven other members of Congress from both parties brought suit last December to invalidate the law. The legislation establishes declining annual deficit targets until the goal of a balanced budget is reached in fiscal 1991; failure by Congress and the President to meet those tar gets means that the Comptroller, who heads the General...
...seems to have gone into hiding. The Department of Labor last week reported that the Consumer Price Index fell .4% in March, equaling February's decline. It was the first back-to-back price drop since 1965 and the steepest two-month decrease in more than 36 years. The main cause: declining energy prices, which were off 6.5% for the month...