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...chronicled in the movie Black Hawk Down), when 18 U.S. troops were killed, prompting a quick American withdrawal from that African nation. In Iraq there is the added risk that Saddam will use biological or chemical weapons against American troops. U.S. military leaders say 30% of street-fighting combatants tend to end up as casualties. The Pentagon wants to drive that figure down...
...many new titles and writers we can't take them all, and you often end up taking some off the shelves without having read them to make room for incoming books," complains a bookstore owner in central Paris who asked not to be named. "In the end, you tend to offer readers what's most likely to sell." So what's on offer this season? Hype is building for two debut novels, Stories to Take You to the Moon by Maëva Poupard, 16, and Prophecy of the Stones by Flavia Bujor, 14. Cynics say their presence...
...followup to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, whose lofty proclamations went the way of most lofty proclamations. The perennial failure of such summits to produce meaningful programs of action has prompted some observers to suggest that summitry itself may begin to breed cynicism. Environmentalist groups, however, tend to believe that the cynicism is actually sharpest among the participant governments, whose input often tends to reflect their own narrow economic concerns rather than those of the greater good they've ostensibly gathered to protect...
...everyone thinks the look is smart, as this and the other skullcap styles tend to be too lightly padded. "It's like having a fake fire extinguisher," says David Thom of the Head Protection Research Laboratory. "Sure, it will keep you from scraping your skull, but it won't protect your brain." --By Clare Demerse
...Stephen Moore. Desperate to protect all their incumbents, House Republican leaders are privately furious with the genetic engineering plan. "The Club has lost track of Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment - not to speak ill of fellow Republicans," gripes Main Street Executive Director Sarah Chamberlain Resnick. But even GOP presidents tend to ignore that commandment when it's convenient. President George W. Bush, for example, has broken it several times this year, taking sides in several GOP primaries...