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The 155 passengers aboard the hijacked Indian Airlines plane in Afghanistan had better cancel their New Year's plans. That assessment after the country's ruling Taliban militia on Thursday eliminated what may have been India's strongest negotiating tool - the threat of force. The Taliban has also warned that...
They estimate fewer than 10 percent of all Y2K-related failures will occur during the first two weeks of January, with 55 percent of them spread throughout the whole coming year.
The United States, Britain, Australia, Canada, Sweden and the Netherlands are probably the most advanced when it comes to Y2K computer compliance, while the countries lagging behind are Russia, other former Soviet states, India, Pakistan and the Afghanistan region, and parts of central and western Africa, they told reporters on...
In a development that could give new meaning to the term "experiential learning," a number of American universities are under investigation for misuse of heroin, cocaine, LSD and marijuana provided for research studies. According to the Associated Press, the Drug Enforcement Administration is looking into the research programs of at...
Ironically, getting the initial federal authorization to buy the drugs is anything but easy; each study is subject to punctilious investigation at the beginning of research. But once an experiment is on the books, the money keeps rolling in without much scrutiny. Those familiar with Kajander's case, while happy...