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...STEELERS +3 Jaguars: There's absolutely no reason to become pessimistic about the Steelers' season -- at least not yet. Last week's loss was unpleasant to watch, but let's not panic...
...incidents that might spark a national panic in the U.S. are unlikely to alter Japan?s pattern of energy use. "The U.S. nuclear industry basically self-destructed under political and economic pressure because it couldn?t run plants safely enough to satisfy the public," says TIME science editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt. "But Japan is unlikely to change course because they?re economically dependent on nuclear power. Generally they?ve made it work for them, but nuclear fuel is dangerous and the price of using it is that there will be accidents every now and again." But a government that plans...
...least until that intensity turns to panic. "You do find some men in their 30s who suddenly realize they've spent too much time on their careers," DePalmo says. Bhatia, at least for the moment, remains sanguine. "I work 18 hours a day because it's fun," he says. "I've chosen a certain life, and I've been pretty successful. For right now, success and marriage don't really...
...talk and speculation has reached fever pitch in Russia, amid the climate of panic generated by the recent apartment bombings. The authorities announced Thursday that police in the southern city of Ryazan had defused a massive bomb in an apartment building after residents reported seeing sacks unloaded from a truck with a covered number plate. But, says Meier, later in the day it emerged that the "bomb" was merely a pile of sacks of sugar. The bombs that are falling in Chechnya, however, are all too real ?- and Moscow may be on the verge of lurching back into its worst...
...panic in Moscow isn?t on the streets; it?s in the Kremlin. Top Yeltsin aides have been stoking Russia?s rumor mill all week, hinting variously that their boss is considering declaring a state of emergency, planning to resign this weekend and call early presidential elections, or looking to simply rely on his familiar when-in-doubt-fire-the-prime-minister formula. Yeltsin aides are also warning that he?s facing another life-threatening health crisis and even ?- in the case of one bizarre story leaked from within the Kremlin ?- that the Russian president died last week. "There...