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Clinton may have grasped the lesson put pithily by Michael Mandelbaum of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies: "If you're not going to pull the trigger, don't point the gun." But it is by no means certain a corner has been turned. If air strikes do finally begin, they might not be even militarily, let alone politically, effective. Bombing runs may not be able to put out of action the Serbs' most effective weapons: easily moved mortars. And even if actual strikes or the threat of them stop the Serbs' Gorazde offensive, what is the next...
...clamp down on chip thefts. Among other things, the agents have found a rising threat of heist-related violence. "We're seeing more weapons being used," says special agent Rick Smith. In one stickup a robber put his gun to a chip retailer's head and pulled the trigger, but the weapon failed to fire. "No one's been killed yet," Smith says, "but it's going to happen...
...IRAQ: Trigger-Happy Tragedy...
Besides damaging the immune system, it may trigger cancer...
...cases, the viral strands zeroed in on a particular stretch of cell DNA. When the investigators looked more closely, they discovered what is known as an oncogene nearby. Responsible for normal growth during development, oncogenes are supposed to lie low in adulthood. However, they can trigger cancer if they remain stuck in the on position later in life...