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Surrounded by several dozen Cambridge schoolchildren, Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Brighton) called for a reduction of arms sales around the world as former Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias looked...
...linking Seoul, Beijing and Pyongyang over the recent defection of North Korean Hwang Jang Yop to the South. In Rome, Albright gave the world a sneak preview of what she terms her "people-to-people" style of diplomacy, shaking hands with American tourists and posing for photos with French schoolchildren. Nor did her punchiness wane inside government buildings. Capitalizing on her reputation for straight talk, the Secretary of State told Italian leaders yesterday that she's disturbed by Italy's cozy commercial relationship with "rogue states" Iran, Libya and Cuba. At a press conference in Bonn, Albright took...
...movie awards ceremony instead. At the "vital center" of this Inaugural are such artists as cellist Yo-Yo Ma, dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and country music singer Trisha Yearwood. Cymbals and symbols have been muted: there will be no walk across the Memorial Bridge arm in arm with hundreds of schoolchildren while bells ring from coast to coast. This time the Clintons rejected a suggestion that five-year-olds build a Tinker Toy bridge to the 21st century--too frivolous, they decided. The President spent hours sweating the details of Monday morning's national prayer service and handpicked Arkansas poet Miller...
...animals, the first vertebrates that truly flew, are a "biological oxymoron," says paleontologist Kevin Padian of the University of California, Berkeley. "Apart from the fact that they flew, there isn't a thing that all the experts agree on. How can animals that are so familiar to generations of schoolchildren be so confusing to the people who study them...
Hopes for similar surges, along with jobs and rising income, drew throngs of townspeople and the high school band in Buffalo two weeks ago to groundbreaking ceremonies for Toyota's West Virginia engine plant. Local schoolchildren sang a haiku ("Cherry Blossoms born of spring, let's go see, let's go see") as dignitaries planted 10 Japanese maples to symbolize Toyota's new U.S. roots. For Senator Jay Rockefeller, landing Toyota marked the capstone of a 20-year crusade to boost the economy of one of the country's poorest states. Thanks to Toyota, Rockefeller says, Buffalo...