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Elizabeth Dole has apparently decided that now is the time for all good women to come to the aid of their party - or at least to the aid of her own bid for the White House. Dole is expected to endorse George W. Bush Tuesday, and members of Bob Dole...
"This could hurt McCain in a state such as South Carolina (site of the third presidential primary), where you could plant Bob Dole for a few weeks and mobilize the veteran vote," says TIME White House correspondent John Dickerson. The McCain camp brushed aside the endorsement, calling it merely another...
Mideast real estate negotiations are never easy, but three wars over occupancy have put the Golan Heights in a league of its own. Israeli and Syrian negotiators on Monday began ten days of intense peace talks in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, with U.S. officials playing down expectations for any kind of...
Each side naturally has a very different idea of the requirements of Israeli security. Israel wants to maintain a military presence at listening posts on the Golan Heights and a demilitarized zone inside Syria stretching all the way back to Damascus; Syria wants to convince them that electronic surveillance will...
Blind and deaf frogs everywhere - and, maybe, humans - got a piece of good news this weekend when Japanese researchers announced they had successfully grown frog eyes and ears in a Tokyo laboratory. It took the sensory organs about five days to emerge from a carefully cultivated soup of the frogs...