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...memo, addressed to Dean of the Graduate School Christoph J. Wolff, said the change was not due to any setback in construction plans, but was simply to allow extra "'give' for hidden structural problems or delays...
...angry, but has less cause for fear: his new $1 million West End Women's Medical Group clinic, which opened in November, is a high-tech fortress with solid steel doors and magnetic locks, bullet-resistant windows, infrared motion detectors, panic buttons to summon police and a 70-ft. setback planted with thorn trees. Contractors experienced in prison and casino security designed the system, while some local SWAT-team police offered advice. "It's a bunker," Stutes says. "Flash Gordon couldn't get in here without being seen...
...successful bid for independence by Chechnya could encourage secessionist movements in scores of other unhappy ethnic and economic enclaves. On a broader canvas still, the worldwide trend of small ethnic groups to break away from larger sovereignties and form their own mini-nations could get either a stiff setback or a strong boost from Chechnya's fate...
...threats against Israeli targets today as reconciliation talks collapsed with the Palestinian self-rule government headed by Yasser Arafat. The talks, whose importance an Arafat spokesman minimized today, began after PLO police opened fire on Hamas activists in Gaza Nov. 18, killing 15 people. The talks' failure was another setback in Arafat's efforts to gain a grip on Palestinians who oppose the Israeli peace accord. The threats -- made during a Gaza City rally today where 10,000 Hamas supporters gathered to commemorate the group's 1987 founding -- put security forces throughout Israel and the occupied territories on alert...
...threatens the institution's very purpose. If a professor collects evidence that suggests, for instance, an innate male advantage in understanding mathematical concepts but is reluctant to present such a view lest he offend the distaff portion of his class, the University's search for truth has suffered a setback. And this sort of thing takes place more often than we know...