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...brilliantly for him. Agents were wrenched by the pictures, and even more profoundly engaged after Koresh began putting the children on the telephone. "Are you coming to kill me?" a tiny voice would ask. "Those kids' faces, you can still see them," says FBI agent Bob Ricks. "They are precious, innocent children, controlled by a madman...
Production of cfcs -- the chemicals that attack earth's precious atmospheric ozone layer and are being phased out by international agreement -- is falling even faster than expected. That's the good news. The bad news is that cfcs already released are still drifting up through the atmosphere. New satellite data, reported in the current Nature, show that ozone levels over some northern parts of Canada, Scandinavia and Russia were 10% lower this winter than they were just one year...
...Prince Charming. The clock strikes midnight, her carriage turns back into a pumpkin, Cinderella dramatically runs out of the palace leaving her petite glass slipper behind. No romance would be complete without a quest. Prince Charming travels all over the kingdom with the one slipper in search of the precious foot it belongs to. (Alas, he finds it, and Cinderella and Prince Charming live happily ever after...
...stockpile of scrapped nuclear warheads. But some officers at a Moscow air-defense unit came up with their own way to enhance disarmament: they were stealing gold and platinum from the circuit boards of missiles and selling it. A captain and two junior sergeants netted $28,000 worth of precious metals before being arrested...
...think these are years of experiment any way, in a young man of woman's life. And I think these are precious years in which to try anything-personally, academically. I think it's very important to develop a healthy population of artistic consumers...