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Blake defeated former Wimbledon finalist MaliVai Washington in a tournament in Newport, R.I., in July, and took then-No. 10 Marcelo Rios to a tiebreak in a Boston tournament last August...
Stevenson, a tournament replacement for Monica Seles, won over No. 14 Dominique Van Roost in three sets, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4, and Blake took No. 94 Xavier Malisse to three sets before losing...
...Wednesday night's debate was a reminder that painting Gore as holier than Bradley in the eyes of the left wing of the Democratic party involves taking positions that might haunt him in the presidential race. Gore, who remains the strong favorite despite Bradley's lead in New Hampshire, took a stronger stand than both his rival and the Clinton administration on the issue of gays in the military. He vowed that he wouldn't appoint any officer to the Joint Chiefs of Staff who didn't support the right of gays to serve openly in the armed forces...
These things we do know about Putin: He's 47, married, joined the KGB?s foreign intelligence directorate after graduating college in 1975, and - officially, at least - spent most of his KGB career stationed in East Germany monitoring political attitudes there. He returned to Leningrad in 1989, where he took up a position at the State University and developed a close relationship with key reformist figure Anatoly Shobchak, who in 1991 became the city?s mayor and appointed Putin to various key administrative posts. Having proved himself a capable manager in St. Petersburg (Leningrad?s original name, restored after...
Blind and deaf frogs everywhere - and, maybe, humans - got a piece of good news this weekend when Japanese researchers announced they had successfully grown frog eyes and ears in a Tokyo laboratory. It took the sensory organs about five days to emerge from a carefully cultivated soup of the frogs' own embryonic stem cells during the groundbreaking experiment, which may provide data that will someday allow scientists to grow sensory organs for humans. The scientists who grew the frog eyes and ears claim to be the first to have done so; this team had previously transplanted lab-grown kidneys into...