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...checkpoint in the Haitian village of Gonaives this morning. Another soldier was also injured when a pickup truck rammed into the checkpoint and the passenger came out shooting. U.S. troops killed the attacker. Although the incident appears isolated, TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson says, it has ended a "long string of good luck" in the U.S. peacekeeping operation. "There's been a sense of, how long can this last? But it looks like the American military has responded quite forcefully."U.S. troops will transfer authority to a United Nations force by mid-March...
...most compelling evidence to date of giant black holes was offered by U.S. scientists in the cover article for this month's Nature magazine. Using a string of radio telescopes, spread from the Caribbean to Hawaii, scientists identified an area of turmoil in space 1 1/2 light years wide -- or 40 million times the size of the Sun. TIME science reporter Michael Lemonick reports that "the very strong assumption is that it has got to be a black hole." He explains that black holes were believed to come in two types: many the size of one star, and others believed...
...troubling investigators for the FBI, who believe the mail bomb that killed Mosser was the work of a devious serial bomber who has eluded them for 16 years. Their ongoing investigation -- dubbed Unabom because the criminal's early targets were people at universities and airlines -- has drawn together a string of 15 incidents since 1978 that have killed one other person and injured 23. But while authorities can say with certainty that this latest blast bears some of the Unabomber's trademarks -- the return address on the package named a fictitious sender in Northern California, where the bomber is thought...
Airline safety is coming under increased scrutiny in the midst of the holiday travel season, the most awkward time for a crisis of confidence in air travel. A recent string of airline crashes and mishaps has compelled passengers, federal regulators and aviation experts to take a suddenly more skeptical look at an industry that had steadily been improving its safety record over the years. Statistically, air travel remains more than 100 times as safe as travel by car. But so far this year, more than 250 people have been killed in air crashes within...
College officials say they plan to prosecute the person or persons responsible for the string of incidents...