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  schizophrenia patients whose medication could n't stop the imaginary voices in their heads gained some relief after researchers repeatedly sent a magnetic field into a small area of their brains .


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  scientists trying to fathom the mystery of schizophrenia say they have found the strongest evidence to date that the disabling psychiatric disorder is caused by gene abnormalities 


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  a yale school of medicine study is expanding upon what scientists know about the link between schizophrenia and nicotine addiction .


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  a family history of schizophrenia remains the best predictor of whether a person will develop the illness 


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  a massachusetts scientist who helped dispel the once widely held belief that schizophrenia came from bad mothering has won an albert lasker award 


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  china 's military has ordered soldiers to `` fight to the death '' to ensure that waterlogged dikes holding back the flooded yangtze river do not collapse 


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  china 's flood control headquarters sent an urgent appeal to soldiers and civilians already worn down from a summer-long battle against floods 


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  this year 's serious swelling of the yangtze river has been caused by abnormal movement of the rain front in the areas along the middle and lower reaches of the river 


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  flood control experts warned today that flood situation along the yangtze river remains grim despite a favorable turn in the weather which has replaced torrential rain in the middle and lower reaches of the river with sunshine .


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  china today urged soldiers and civilians to persist to the end in the struggle against the worst flooding on several major rivers .


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  flooding on the yangtze river remains serious although water levels on parts of the river decreased today 


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  the coincidence of charles schulz 's death one day before his final `` peanuts '' appeared in newspapers weighed heavily sunday on fans of charlie brown 


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  a self-portrait of charles schulz hangs above a doorway at the international museum of cartoon art in boca raton .


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  comics pages in newspapers around the world will be pretty much all-peanuts on saturday as a tribute to 50 years of humor and insight from the late charles schulz .


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  the comic strips in the nation 's newspapers today were supposed to be a surprise for one special man 


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  at least two law enforcement agencies are investigating alleged fraud on ebay and other internet auction sites after consumers complained that they had been cheated .


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  two online car sites want to do for automobiles what ebay has done for trading cards and elvis knickknacks : namely 


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  attorney general janet reno today denied that recent revelations about the fbi 's use of tear gas during the 1993 branch davidian siege had strained her relations with fbi director louis freeh .


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  sifting through thousands of pages of documents provided four years ago to a congressional panel investigating the 1993 waco tragedy 


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  an fbi lawyer ''goofed '' in not telling superiors in 1996 that federal agents fired pyrotechnic tear gas canisters into the branch davidians ' compound in waco 


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  the fbi released a new videotape friday in which a federal agent describes the use of incendiary tear gas grenades during the 1993 assault on the branch davidian compound near waco 


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  u.s. attorney general janet reno pledged thursday to investigate the truth of waco incident in which over 80 members of the branch davidian cult were killed as their compound in waco 


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  the ioc opened a high-level investigation thursday into what one top olympic official described as `` bribes '' paid by the salt lake city bid committee to help secure the 2002 winter games .


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  what started as a local controversy in salt lake city has evolved into a full-blown international scandal .


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  the board of trustees overseeing the salt lake city olympics will meet in emergency session next week to dicuss the controversy surrounding alleged rules violations involving the bid for the 2002 winter games .


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  organizers of the olympic games in salt lake city are not to blame for a bribery scandal that has embarrassed the olympic movement 


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  members of the delegation for quebec city 's 2002 winter olympics bid feel betrayed in light of the scandal surrounding the successful bid by salt lake city .


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  the olympic executive whose accusations of bribery and blackmail rocked the ioc says as many as 25 members might have received favors or cash for votes in four recent elections to choose sites for the games .


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  salt lake city should be ordered to pay dlrs 14 million in compensation to its competitors for having `` cheated '' in the race for the 2002 winter olympics 


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  australian international olympic committee member phil coles should resign after being implicated in the salt lake city bribery scandal 


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  an ioc official ousted in the bribery scandal involving salt lake city 's successful bid for the 2002 winter olympics insists that gifts and favors he received never influenced his vote 


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  the two chief organizers of salt lake city 's bid to be host to the 2002 winter olympics pleaded not guilty on monday to federal charges that they had conspired to bribe members of the international olympic committee .


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  ohio state coach john cooper has made his appeal to the voters in the associated press poll : if no 


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  year two of the bowl championship series will bring a few new wrinkles to the process of selecting the teams to play in its national championship game .


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  atlantic coast conference commissioner john swofford will be the coordinator for the bowl championship series this season .


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  the new system for selecting the two teams for college football 's national championship game is not perfect 


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  a fifth bowl could be added to the bowl championship series as soon as 2001 if a preliminary plan recently introduced to college football officials earns approval .


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  a supreme court known for its impatience with death row appeals surprisingly halted two executions this week and is on track to issue four significant rulings on capital punishment by summer .


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  for three days they met in san francisco to help one another learn to better swim against a powerful tide 


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  a poll released thursday shows that a flurry of recent reports of innocent inmates being freed from death row has left a deep impression with the public and cut into support for capital punishment in the united states .


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  bolstered by findings that even americans who favor capital punishment worry that innocent people might be put to death 


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  iowa republicans on monday scheduled their precinct caucuses next feb. 7 -- two weeks earlier than planned -- and democrats said they 'll move to the same date .


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  a bid to eliminate the state 's `` winner-take-all '' republican presidential primary received a setback monday that its sponsor predicted would prove fatal to the proposal .


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  the republican and democratic presidential candidates are being invited to a series of televised debates in new hampshire in the weeks before the nation 's first primary .


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  republican and democratic party leaders told state election officials tuesday that the presidential primary calendar needs to be prolonged in 2004 to offset the disproportionate impact of the early presidential contests .


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  the best comment on the demise of steve forbes ' presidential campaign was disseminated by the associated press 


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  the voting on march 7 represents the closest this country has ever come to a national primary to choose the major parties ' presidential candidates .


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  the republican party of the united states held its first major presidential forum of the 2000 campaign in new hampshire on sunday evening .


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  u.s. conservative activist gary bauer dropped out of the presidential race friday after finishing the last in the new hampshire republican party primary .


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  an e. coli outbreak that sickened at least 6 people visiting a maine ski resort has been traced to contaminated ground beef produced at a minnesota meat processing plant 


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  nearly 500 people have been sickened and one child died in the largest e. coli outbreak in state history -- and possibly one of the worst nationally -- health officials said thursday .


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  more than 140 people were sickened with a potentially deadly strain of e. coli after partying in a cow pasture last weekend 


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  at least six children in northeast ohio have been infected by e. coli bacteria and the medina county fair is a possible source of the contamination 


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  if the link between this week 's cluster of e. coli cases and the white water themepark in marietta 


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  epidemiologists have re-created in laboratories the elusive bug that they believe caused severe stomach illness in almost 60 students and instructors who attended a university of north texas drill team camp a few weeks ago .


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  health officials said they believe that a 79-year-old man who died at a hospital in albany friday may have been the second victim of an outbreak of e. coli that has already sickened more than 600 people in upstate new york .


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  outbreaks of food poisoning caused by a fierce strain of e. coli bacteria like the one now going on in japan also have occurred in the united states 


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  japanese government officials finally responded today to the appeals of medical experts to declare the two-month-old food poisoning outbreak an infectious disease .


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  a proposal to ban those $ 1 or $ 2 atm surcharges goes before voters for the first time next month in san francisco 


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  fleet bank and bankboston began imposing a fee on non-customers who use their more than 500 connecticut atms monday 


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  a plan by new england 's two largest banks to introduce a maximum $ 1 atm surcharge on customers from other banks and not raise the fee for two years may violate antitrust laws 


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  fleet financial group said monday that it would temporarily freeze its automatic teller surcharge in massachusetts at 75 cents 


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  the fees banks charge for using atm machines to withdraw money increasingly are under attack by state governments 


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  a federal judge yesterday temporarily blocked san francisco 's voter-approved initiative barring banks from charging fees to noncustomers who use their atms .


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  patricia pena gave little thought to using a cellular telephone on the road before a distracted driver hit her car broadside 


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  at & amp ; t has sent a clear message to marlboro officials : the telecommunications giant does not support the township 's proposed ban on the use of cellular phones while driving .


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  mayor bret schundler vetoed a measure thursday that would have made jersey city the second new jersey community to ban cellular telephone use while driving .


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  state sen. tom smith wants arizonans to follow the suggestion on a popular bumper sticker : `` hang up and drive. ' 


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  mechanical problems that threaten to shut down the astronomical observations of the hubble space telescope may prompt a repair mission six months earlier than planned to the $ 1.7 billion spacecraft 


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  astronauts will rush to the hubble space telescope this fall -- eight months early -- to fix its deteriorating pointing system .


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  astronauts will make an emergency shuttle flight to the $ 3.8 billion hubble space telescope in mid-october to replace failing components in the mechanism that points the large observatory at distant stars 


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  the hubble space telescope has temporarily ceased scientific operations because of the failure of its precision pointing system 


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  a pair of spacewalking astronauts on wednesday began the intricate process of repairing the dormant hubble space telescope 


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  the hubble space telescope got smarter and better able to point at distant astronomical targets on thursday as spacewalking astronauts replaced two major pieces of the observatory 's gear .


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  u.s. space shuttle discovery returned home early this morning after astronauts successfully ended their 10-day hubble space telescope service mission .


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  independent counsel kenneth starr has asked monica lewinsky to be fingerprinted and to give voice and handwriting samples in the next few days 


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  monica lewinsky has been given full immunity in exchange for testimony in kenneth starr 's six-month investigation of her relationship with president bill clinton 


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  former white house intern monica lewinsky is prepared to testify to grand jurors -- probably on thursday -- in the white house scandal 


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  television stations in the united states monday began broadcasting a four-hour videotape of president bill clinton 's testimony before a grand jury on august 17 .


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  u.s. house prosecutor bill mccollum told senators in president bill clinton 's impeachment trial friday that former white house intern monica lewinsky 's testimony establishes that clinton `` knowingly 


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  the u.s. senate moved thursday to bring president bill clinton 's impeachment trial to a prompt conclusion 


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  britain 's defense minister praised the czech republic on tuesday for progress toward nato membership 


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  canadian prime minister jean chretien said today that he supports the czech republic 's bid to join the north atlantic treaty organization -lrb- nato -rrb- .


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  the czech republic and hungary will not compete with each other in their bids to join nato and the european union -lrb- eu -rrb- 


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  czech prime minister vaclav klaus today criticized russia 's ambassador to the czech republic for saying that russia would reconsider its economic relations with the country if it persisted in trying to join nato .


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  french president jacques chirac today promised the czech republic that france will do all it can to help prague join the european union -lrb- eu -rrb- in 2000 and the nato in 1999 


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  russian prime minister viktor chernomyrdin arrived here today for a three-day visit to discuss nato 's eastward expansion with czech leaders .


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  nato general secretary javier solana thursday expressed satisfaction over preparations the czech republic is making to join nato .


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  house republicans questioned the quality of work produced by the census bureau in a count that is ahead of schedule and said the shortcomings may affect the accuracy of the raw data collected for census 2000 .


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  a political dispute masquerading as a legal issue makes its first appearance in federal court thursday as republicans try to prevent the clinton administration from using statistical methods in the 2000 census .


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  president clinton on tuesday nominated new york social scientist kenneth prewitt to head the census bureau 


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  following are excerpts from the decision by a three-judge federal panel in a lawsuit filed by the house of representatives against the commerce department over the proposed use of statistical sampling in the 2000 census .


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  a sharply divided supreme court on monday struck down president clinton 's controversial proposal to use a statistical formula to complement the traditional head count of the u.s. population in the 2000 census .


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  the kansas board of education has approved new standards for teaching science in public schools that critics say strips evolution from its accepted place at the center of biological studies .


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  the kansas board of education voted wednesday to delete virtually any mention of evolution from the state 's science curriculum 


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  conservatives won a major victory in kansas on wednesday when the state board of education approved new science standards that dilute the teaching of evolution .


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  after following hundreds of homeless families in new york city to determine if social disorders prolonged their situation 


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  former tanzanian president mwalimu julius nyerere today inaugurated the mwalimu nyerere foundation in dodoma 


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  the united states is considering to create a standby force of african troops to deal with what it called humanitarian crises in africa such as the ongoing tribal warfare in burundi and the civil war in liberia 


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  kenya has urged the u.s. government to refrain from accusing it over the recent confrontations between kenyan police and opposition supporters 


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  u.s. special envoy jesse jackson called sunday on the kenyan government to halt tribal conflicts in which some 120 people have been killed and hundreds brutally injured since january 11 .


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  u.s. special envoy jesse jackson urged monday kenyan president daniel arap moi during their talks to visit rift valley province in a bid to end tribal clashes there killing some 120 people since january 11 .


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  kenyan president daniel arap moi has urged kenyans to scrap tribalism in order to tackle challenges in the next millennium .


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  the south african truth and reconciliation commission -lrb- trc -rrb- has completely failed to address or find the root causes for black-on-black violence which has claimed more than 30 


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  the dispute over the sharing of the ganges water has become a major hurdle in the relations between india and bangladesh 


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  bangladesh foreign secretary faroq sobhan is expected to arrive here today for talks with india on three long-standing issues troubling bilateral relations - ganges water-sharing 


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  india and bangladesh today formally started sharing the common ganges water after india opened 75 sluice-gates of its farakka barrage at 06:30 a.m. local time -lrb- 0030 gmt -rrb- in implementation of an agreement between the two countries .


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  india and bangladesh have agreed to maintain a status quo in the disputed border areas till a final decision on the issue 


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  bangladesh monday received fresh assurance from india of reaching a solution to border problems by february or march next year 


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  installation of a 176-km-long power transmission line from changshou county of sichuan province to wanxian city of chongqing 


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  the gigantic three gorges power project in the middle reaches of the yangtze river has received more than 270 million u.s. dollars in loans from german banks for purchase of 14 turbines and generators 


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  the china yangtze river three gorges development project corp. invited 22 noted chinese water conservancy and hydropower experts to act as consultants for the project to dam the yangtze river in early november .


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  a senior official said that the damming of the three gorges project is running on schedule and will be completed by 2003 .


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  gsm -lrb- global system of mobile communications -rrb- went into service thursday at the construction site of china 's biggest water control project -- the three gorges dam .


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  police from 24 countries and two international organizations convened in bulgaria 's capital monday to discuss joint action against a surge in car thefts 


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  the 15 european union nations and 11 neighbors pledged to join forces tuesday to fight against organized crime 


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  interpol must adopt a new strategy for combating increasingly sophisticated crime syndicates if it wants to remain viable in the coming century 


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  interpol must modernize if it wants to effectively fight increasingly sophisticated crime syndicates in the next century 


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  interpol on monday approved an egyptian proposal that calls on police agencies to share information as part of the international fight against terrorism .


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  the united states and european countries were rebuked tuesday for passing up an international heroin conference because it was in myanmar 


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  the visiting china interpol chief today expressed confidence in hong kong 's smooth transition and its prosperity and stability 


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  china is willing to enhance cooperation with all other countries and international organizations in fighting against cross-border organized crime 


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  chinese police will continue to strengthen cooperation with their colleagues in other parts of the world to strike back against international drug crime .


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  vietnam has floated the price of cashews due to a shortage of nuts to keep processing plants running 


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  mozambique 's national union of cashew workers friday called on the assembly or parliament to pass a bill for protecting the cashew processing industry by banning 


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  the state department has ordered the world 's largest civilian test-pilot school to stop teaching foreigners 


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  the state department on friday lifted the ban it had imposed on foreign fliers at a private test-pilot school over fears the classes could teach hostile nations about u.s. weapons systems .


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  the navy is giving college students and graduates a one-week aviation tryout to boost recruitment and reduce a flight-training dropout rate that can be as high as 25 percent .


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  some 150 pilots and flight technicians from china 's civil aviation industry and the air force attended a seminar on flight techniques for the next century 


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  zhang earned his pilot 's license from the xinjin branch of the china civil aviation college in the city of guanghan in southwest china 's sichuan province .


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  an international relief agency announced wednesday that it is withdrawing from north korea because the government has ordered it to stop treating starving and sick people and to supply the local pharmaceutical industry instead .


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  the civilian population of kosovo has been subjected to a `` systematic policy of terror '' that includes massacres 


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  madagascar 's battle against a cholera epidemic is being complicated by a spat between the government of one of the world 's poorest countries and an acclaimed international aid agency .


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  seven years ago dr. yared kebede haile worked as a well-paid physician for an american oil company in his native ethiopia 


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  a mystery which has long puzzled the world 's top scientists appears to have finally been solved by a team of physics experts working in a mine shaft in central japan .


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  researcher christopher mauger admits that doing cutting-edge physics from the end of a mine shaft deep inside a mountain has its drawbacks .


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  but once in a great while a neutrino does hit an atom and the resulting blast of nuclear debris supplies clues about the neutrino itself .


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  what many physicists consider to be one of the last pieces of the theoretical puzzle that explains the structure of matter has been detected at the fermi national accelerator laboratory near chicago .


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  the day the map of canada is redrawn and native people in the frigid north start to govern themselves is still more than two months off .


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  already the hunters are fanning out across the frozen tundra to bag sufficent caribou for a feast the likes of which has never been seen in canada 's arctic .


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  a bold attempt to right past wrongs and bring hope to an entire region was launched as thursday began and the map of canada was redrawn to make room for the new territory of nunavut .


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  british officials will fight suggestions that uk be forced to enter a new european exchange rate mechanism -lrb- erm -rrb- after the proposed european single currency comes into force 


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  british board of trade president ian lang wednesday warned that a single european currency could prove harmful to british business if adopted without full and careful consideration of possible consequences .


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  italian prime minister romano prodi and french president jaques chirac today reached a consensus on the timetable for the launch of the single european currency at summit talks in southern italian city of naples .


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  italian leaders said today that there was more to europe than the single european currency -- the goal of the long process of european integration was a political government and a political parliament .


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  the european union -lrb- eu -rrb- welcomed the entry of the greek currency drachma in the exchange rate mechanism -lrb- erm -rrb- of the european monetary system and the fixing of a new central rate for the irish pound .


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  the european parliament approved on thursday the european commission 's recommendation for 11 countries to join the single currency mechanism in january 1999 .


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  following are the key events in the evolution of the european economic and monetary union -lrb- emu -rrb- : 1957 -- signing of the treaty of rome for the establishment of the european economic community -lrb- eec -rrb- ; 1970 -- luxembourg 's prime minister pierre werner proposed how to achieve emu by 1980 ; 1971 -- the united states abandoned dollar 's link to gold ; 1972 -- prototype of a european monetary system ; 1979 -- establishment of the european monetary system ; 1985-1992 -- preparation of the internal market ; 1986 -- signing of the single european act with the goal of a single market in europe by the end of 1992 ; 1988 -- the european commission under jacques delors set up a committee for the study of emu ; 1989 -- delors ' proposal of a three-stage transition to emu ; november 1993 -- entering into force the treaty of european union -lrb- maastricht treaty -rrb- with emu as one of the basic objectives ; may 1995 -- proposal by the european commission greenpaper of a transition to single currency ; euro was chosen as the name for that single currency ; december 1996 -- publishing of designs of euro bank notes by the european monetary institute ; june 1997 -- agreement on legal framework for the use of euro at the european council meeting in amsterdam ; announcing of designs of euro coins ; march 1998 -- adoption by the european commission of convergence report and recommendation of 11 european union member states as the founding members of euro ; may 1998 -- confirmation by the european summit at heads of state and government level of the recommendation that 11 countries are the original members of the euro zone ; european finance ministers pre-announced bilateral exchange rates between participating currencies and euro ; january 1999 -- the 11 eu countries adopt the euro while banks and stock exchanges begin using euros in all scriptural transactions like writing checks 


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  a senior official of the european union -lrb- eu -rrb- said tuesday that doing business in europe will become more efficient and less costly for american companies when the euro comes into being in january .


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  with tropical storm gloria threatening to wreak more havoc in flood-devastated mozambique and its neighbors 


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  just as aid agencies were making headway in feeding hundreds of thousands displaced by flooding in southern and central mozambique 


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  saturday 's headline in the daily newspaper noticias hit a nerve : `` west closes its eyes to tragedy in mozambique . ''


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  zambia 's parliament has set up a parliamentary committee to raise funds and other materials for flood victims in mozambique 


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  u.n. secretary-general kofi annan tuesday joined the u.n. agencies once again in calling for massive aid to mozambique 


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  the united nations development program -lrb- undp -rrb- and the national institute for mine clearance -lrb- ind -rrb- in mozambique tuesday announced an emergency plan in response to the problem of landmines displaced by the severe flooding in the southern african country 


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  a small but crucial cost item in the 450 million u.s. dollar appeal for mozambique this week is 15 million u.s. dollars for measures to reduce the southern african country 's vulnerability to floods 


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  mozambique has gained this week some 30 million u.s. dollars in aid for reconstruction of the infrastructures damaged by floods earlier this year in the southeastern african country 


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  grassroots community organizers battling the y2k bug say the federal government and corporate america are undermining their efforts with a flurry of `` do n't worry 


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  there has been a significant improvement in the awareness of the year 2000 problem -lrb- y2k -rrb- among hong kong companies 


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  year 2000 -lrb- y2k -rrb- asian regional coordinators wednesday signed a historic y2k declaration that will lay down the framework for the region 's approach to the millennium bug debacle as the second global y2k summit was closed here .


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  philippine president joseph estrada underscored monday the need to step up efforts to strengthen the country 's defense system against the so-called millennium bug or y2k .


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  an influential lawmaker from the governing labor party on saturday backed spanish requests to question former chilean dictator gen. augusto pinochet 


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  british police said saturday they have arrested former chilean dictator gen. augusto pinochet on allegations of murdering spanish citizens during his years in power .


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  former chilean dictator gen. augusto pinochet has been arrested by british police on a spanish extradition warrant 


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  president fidel castro said sunday he disagreed with the arrest in london of former chilean dictator augusto pinochet 


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  perhaps as a sign of how much chileans wish to forget their years of polarized politics and repression under gen. augusto pinochet 


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  the arrest of gen. augusto pinochet shows the growing significance of international human-rights law 


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  german police raided several locations near bonn after receiving word of a terrorist threat against the u.s. embassy 


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  an islamic militant group on thursday threatened to retaliate if saudi dissident osama bin laden is arrested 


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  federal prosecutors in manhattan said wednesday that one of the men accused of conspiring to bomb the u.s. embassies in kenya and tanzania in august had met earlier with osama bin laden 


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  the taliban movement in afghanistan might consider putting osama bin laden on trial for a 1996 bomb attack that killed 19 american airmen in saudi arabia 


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  a federal grand jury in manhattan returned a 238-count indictment wednesday charging the saudi exile osama bin laden with conspiring to bomb two u.s. embassies in africa in august and with committing acts of terrorism against americans abroad .


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  a federal district judge agreed tuesday to review complaints by lawyers for three men arrested after the bombings of two u.s. embassies in africa that their jail conditions in manhattan are unconstitutional and inhumane .


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  islamic militants are pulling out all the stops to keep the new u.s.-brokered israeli-palestinian peace accord from becoming reality .


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  the father of one of the islamic militants who died in the suicide bombing of a crowded jerusalem market said saturday he was sad about his son 's death but proud of what he had done .


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  egypt 's president says there is `` virtually nobody '' who believes israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu will implement the latest peace deal with palestinians .


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  a red fiat belching smoke sent shoppers fleeing moments before it exploded outside a bustling marketplace on friday morning 


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  president clinton expressed sympathy to israel friday after a car-bomb explosion in a jerusalem market wounded 24 people but said the attack should not derail the recent land-for-security deal between israel and the palestinians .


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  stargazers in asia sought high ground and clear skies tuesday to view the most spectacular celestial fireworks in 33 years 


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  satellite operators reported no immediate problems tuesday as the earth passed through the tail of a comet that peppered the atmosphere with tiny bits of space junk zipping along at 155


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  by the time the earth collides with a dense swarm of meteoroids tuesday night to unleash what may be the heaviest meteor bombardment since 1966 


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  temperatures rose to 300 degrees -lrb- 570 degrees f -rrb- without leaving traces of fire in the front part of swissair flight 111 before it crashed 


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  swissair `` did everything correctly '' in installing a state-of-the-art entertainment system switched off last month in the wake of the crash of flight 111 


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  the federal aviation administration said on thursday that it would consider whether airliners can get too old to fly 


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  investigators looking into the crash last month of swissair flight 111 off the coast of nova scotia have found `` heat damage '' in wires from the plane 's in-flight entertainment system 


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  the federal aviation administration on thursday abruptly ordered airlines that fly md-11s to inspect two cockpit switches because one model in wide use can give off smoke at certain settings .


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  china hopes to win its first asian games gold medal in the martial art of taekwondo next month in thailand 


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  star striker chen yang scored a hat trick wednesday for china in a lackluster 4-1 victory over cambodia 


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  china 's swim team will hit the water at the asian games on monday with a reminder of the darkest chapter in its story of drug shame .


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  china 's women divers expect to clinch asian games gold in the platform competition but could face stiff competition from kazakstan in the springboard .


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  brazilian stocks dropped sharply monday in the lowest trading volume of the year despite the almost certain re-election of president fernando henrique cardoso .


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  attention has shifted in brazil from the president 's almost-certain re-election to gubernatorial runoff elections 


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  brazilian voters appeared to re-elect president fernando henrique cardoso in the first round of balloting sunday 


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  brazilian voters gave president fernando henrique cardoso a comfortable lead in the first round of balloting sunday 


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  rivals of president fernando henrique cardoso won important victories in gubernatorial races sunday 


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  egyptian president hosni mubarak arrived saturday for a one-day visit to discuss regional problems with saudi king fahd and other high-ranking officials .


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  president hosni mubarak of egypt will go to syria and turkey to help cool tensions between the two countries 


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  egyptian president hosni mubarak flew here on sunday to try to defuse growing tension between syria and turkey .


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  signaling it does not want to be involved in any potential military confrontation between syria and turkey 


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  egyptian president hosni mubarak flew to damascus on sunday to try to defuse growing tension between syria and turkey .


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  tension between turkey and syria has risen to the point where the top turkish military commander says the two hostile neighbors have reached `` a state of undeclared war . ''


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  a u.n. envoy said wednesday he was making progress in his efforts to mediate a settlement between portugal and indonesia on the disputed territory of east timor 


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  indonesia 's military said friday that it was ready to act against a threat from an east timor rebel group to launch terrorist attacks .


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  rebels in the disputed territory of east timor were holding two soldiers captive wednesday after releasing 11 others they abducted in a deadly raid .


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  stray bullets killed two villagers during a gunfight between separatist rebels and police in the northernmost indonesian region of aceh on sunday 


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  opponents of indonesia 's control over the disputed territory of east timor said thursday that documents leaked from the indonesian ministry of defense show that the army is not drawing down its forces in the territory as the government has reported .


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  indonesia 's national commission on human rights will investigate accusations that soldiers executed as many as 50 people this month in the troubled province of east timor in a military operation against armed rebels 


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  israeli security officials delayed two planes from taking off from the palestinian airport on wednesday 


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  palestinians celebrated with euphoria the long-delayed opening of their international airport tuesday as a parade of planes swooped down from cottony skies and glided to a literal red-carpet landing in the flatlands of gaza .


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  libyan leader moammar gadhafi said the suspects in the lockerbie bombing are ''very happy '' to be tried in the netherlands 


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  zimbabwean president robert mugabe arrived in egypt monday after meeting with libyan leader moammar gadhafi 


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  zimbabwean president robert mugabe arrived monday in egypt after meeting with libyan leader moammar gadhafi 


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  newspapers reported wednesday that three top libyan officials have been tried and jailed in the lockerbie case 


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  secretary-general kofi annan said wednesday that he may travel to libya next week in hopes of closing a deal to try two libyan suspects in the pan am lockerbie bombing .


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  secretary-general kofi annan said wednesday that he is considering a trip to libya next week that could close a deal to try libyan suspects in the pan am lockerbie bombing .


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  foreign minister ismail cem said wednesday turkey was remaining cautious towards neighboring syria despite a deal with damascus to crack down on a kurdish rebel group .


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  russia 's parliament on wednesday asked president boris yeltsin to offer political asylum to kurdish rebel leader abdullah ocalan 


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  the foreign ministry on friday protested the invitation by 109 greek deputies to a kurdish rebel leader to visit greece .


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  seven female members of a kurdish group were on a three-day hunger strike tuesday in support of a controversial kurdish leader 


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  about 100 kurds began a hunger strike in the main square of nicosia on saturday to protest the detention in italy of kurdish rebel leader abdullah ocalan .


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  a three-week-old crisis between turkey and syria appears to have been at least temporarily defused by the signing of an agreement in which syria agreed to stop supporting kurdish rebels 


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  the united states and other economic powers moved ahead saturday toward an overhaul of the world 's financial system to prevent widening market turmoil from pushing more countries into recession .


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  the chief executive of the international monetary fund said wednesday there should be a slight improvement in global economic fortunes next year spearheaded by europe and the united states .


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  increasingly angry at what they consider the lenient treatment that russia received in its $ 4.5 billion bailout by the international monetary fund 


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  anyone following the u.s. senate race in new york this year could be forgiven for concluding that this is one of the epic ideological battles of the 1990s : the right-wing extremist 


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  almost every member of the house judiciary committee paid some tribute to the constitution and the founding fathers monday .


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  sen. alfonse d'amato and rep. charles schumer are locked in an extraordinarily tight race for the u.s. senate 


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  a former bosnian muslim prison guard charged with war crimes against serb captives should get a milder sentence because he suffers from mental problems worsened by the war 


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  yugoslav war crimes tribunal investigators plan to return to kosovo and resume their probe of alleged atrocities in the troubled province 


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  the general assembly voted friday to select three judges to fill a new trial chamber of the yugoslav war crimes tribunal 


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  a delegation of u.n. war crimes investigators and prosecutors plans to visit kosovo early next month 


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  the president of the u.n. war crimes tribunal angrily branded yugoslavia a `` rogue state '' thursday after belgrade refused to allow investigators to probe alleged atrocities in kosovo .


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  yugoslavia must cooperate with a u.n. war crimes panel investigating allegations of atrocities in the rebellious yugoslav province of kosovo 


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  a 42-year-old man who says he is the lone survivor of a massacre in which 13 ethnic albanians were summarily shot and killed in this village in kosovo recalled thursday how he was herded into a garden with other men and told to lie flat on the ground .


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  unknown gunmen abducted three britons and a new zealand citizen in russia 's breakaway chechnya region after a shootout with their bodyguards 


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  a foreign office minister said monday that the british phone company whose four employees were kidnapped in chechnya at the weekend was specifically warned to withdraw from russia 's breakaway region 


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  the british embassy in moscow has received no direct information about three britons and a new zealander kidnapped in breakaway chechnya nearly two weeks ago 


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  chechen officials said the bodies of four kidnapped foreigners had been found tuesday near a remote village .


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  chechen authorities found the remains of four kidnapped foreigners tuesday near a remote village in the breakaway region in southern russia .


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  chechen authorities found the decapitated heads of four kidnapped foreigners tuesday near a remote village after a two-month search in the breakaway region in southern russia .


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  torturers and bombers who carried out atrocities defending or fighting apartheid need counseling to ensure they do not repeat their crimes 


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  a panel probing apartheid-era abuses has accused the african national congress of human rights violations 


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  the institution exploring apartheid 's horrors will issue a report that finds the african national congress shares blame for human rights violations as it struggled to overcome white rule .


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  a panel investigating apartheid-era atrocities said wednesday it will not implicate the last apartheid president 


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  president nelson mandela acknowledged saturday the african national congress violated human rights during apartheid 


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  following are excerpts from the final report issued by south africa 's truth and reconciliation commission on thursday : primary finding on the basis of the evidence available to it 


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  the deal that south africa 's truth and reconciliation commission offered was simple enough : confess your crimes 


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  hailing the world war ii archbishop of zagreb as a martyr to `` the atrocities of the communist system 


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  at a seaside mass here pope john paul ii called for reconciliation throughout the former yugoslavia and urged the world to do more for the victims of the balkan war that ended not long ago in croatia and that has most recently raged in kosovo .


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  turkey 's government collapsed wednesday after losing a confidence vote in parliament over a corruption scandal that tainted the prime minister with allegations of mob ties .


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  turkey 's president began trying to construct a new government wednesday but the pieces do not neatly fit : pro-islamic forces pressing for power and their military-backed 


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  the head of turkey 's pro-islamic party said thursday he would not insist on his rightful chance to lead turkey 's next government 


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  one of turkey 's leading politicians warned sunday that a political vacuum could cripple the domestic battle to keep islamists at bay and in the fight abroad for the extradition of a kurdish rebel leader .


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  one of turkey 's leading politicians warned sunday that a political vacuum could cripple the domestic battle to keep islamists at bay and the fight abroad for the extradition of a kurdish rebel leader .


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  turkey 's secular military leadership warned a pro-islamic party monday against dragging the army into politics 


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  national forecast inclement weather will affect parts of the northeast on thursday as developing low pressure lifts atlantic moisture across the region .


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  typhoon babs headed toward southern china friday after battering the central and northern philippines with heavy winds and rain that killed at least 82 people 


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  typhoon babs brought torrential rains and landslides to taiwan and lashed hong kong with strong winds sunday after killing more than 150 people in the philippines and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless .


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  typhoon babs brought torrential rains and landslides to taiwan and lashed hong kong with strong winds sunday after killing at least 156 people in the philippines and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless .


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  typhoon babs weakened into a severe tropical storm sunday night after it triggered massive flooding and landslides in taiwan and slammed hong kong with strong winds .


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  weak consumer demand is expected to have lowered inflation pressure on all commodity groups in the philippines in october 


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  the price of cooking oil in the philippines has risen drastically this month because of retailers speculating on a shortfall in copra production 


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  national forecast snow advisories were issued thursday for the san juan mountains in southeast colorado as moist air drawn northward by a distant upper-level low-pressure system over northern nevada was forced to ascend the sloping terrain .


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  some of those whom knew him said dr. barnett slepian continued to perform abortions in the face of death threats because he had what one friend called `` a stubborn kind of courage . ''


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  five sniper attacks against abortion doctors in canada and the united states have occurred in the last four years within a few weeks of nov. 11 


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  with federal marshals posted outside and protesters waving pictures of aborted fetuses from the sidewalk 


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  a panicky telephone call in poor swedish was the first word that authorities got of a fire racing through a dance hall crowded with immigrant teen-agers 


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  forensic experts examining heavily burned bodies were able saturday to identify more of the 60 young people who died in a dance hall fire 


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  officials offered no word sunday on what might have caused the dance-hall fire that killed 60 young people 


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  thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators rallied in a tehran park sunday to protest the rejection of scores of candidates for the election of a powerful assembly .


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  iranians voted friday to elect a key assembly expected to be dominated by hard-line clergymen who favor unhindered powers for iran 's supreme leader .


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  iran 's official media boasted about a huge turnout in elections friday for the council that oversees the country 's supreme leader .


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  conservative muslim clerics were leading in national elections for a key assembly that elects and oversees iran 's supreme leader 


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  iran 's conservatives won a decisive victory in elections for a clergy-based assembly that oversees the country 's supreme leader 


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  searchers recovered more bodies over the weekend from tons of gravel deposited by storm flooding in a southeastern haitian town 


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  national forecast frost will cover patches of the landscape from the western great lakes to the northern ohio valley on friday morning .


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  republican congressional leaders presented the clinton administration thursday with a list of lending conditions that they want imposed on the international monetary fund in order for congress to approve $ 18 billion in new money for the imf .


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  the clinton administration has begun to consult foreign governments about changes that will be demanded of the international monetary fund under a deal with congress to provide the fund with $ 18 billion 


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  in a recent move that indicated he has no intention of backing away from his company 's aggressive business tactics 


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  the government 's case against microsoft is a narrative that revolves around netscape communications corp. and the government 's leading witness 


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  a lawyer for microsoft corp. on thursday portrayed the company 's competitor in the internet software business 


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  solemn-faced kenyans whose relatives were killed in the terrorist bombing of a u.s. embassy collected benefits on friday they said failed to compensate for their losses .


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  u.s. prosecutors have asked for a 20-day extension to provide germany with paperwork necessary to extradite a top lieutenant of saudi terrorist suspect osama bin laden 


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  the united states has obtained new evidence to link the owner of a sudanese factory destroyed in a u.s. cruise missile strike last month to a terrorist group backed by osama bin laden 


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  the man accused of directing the bomb attack on the american embassy in kenya came of age in this impoverished indian ocean archipelago 


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  president joseph estrada on saturday urged militant unionists at philippine airlines to accept a vote by workers approving a 10-year no-strike deal to revive the debt-laden airline .


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  president joseph estrada said saturday the financially troubled philippine airlines will resume its international flights on sunday by flying him to singapore where he will address the world economic forum .


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  the philippine government is ready to give up its stake in ailing philippine airlines and will not infuse any additional capital if a new investor 


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  the number of labor strikes and lockouts in the philippines has declined this year despite business difficulties caused by asia 's financial crisis 


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  prospective investor cathay pacific airways wants the number of employees at troubled philippine airlines to be slashed from more than 8


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  ailing philippine airlines and prospective investor cathay pacific airways have clashed over the laying off of pal workers 


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  cathay pacific airways said wednesday it had pulled out of talks to buy a stake in ailing philippine airlines 


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  philippine airlines said thursday it will attempt to rebuild alone after hong kong 's cathay pacific airlines pulled out of talks on acquiring a stake in the ailing philippine flag carrier .


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  china 's central government ordered the arrest of a prominent democracy campaigner and may use his contacts with exiled chinese dissidents to charge him with harming national security 


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  china 's government said thursday that two prominent dissidents arrested this week are suspected of endangering national security 


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  one leader of a suppressed new political party will be tried on dec. 17 on a charge of colluding with foreign enemies of china `` to incite the subversion of state power 


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  a chinese dissident fleeing a new round of arrests of democracy activists in shanghai arrived here wednesday and announced that he and other opponents of the chinese government plan a demonstration thursday at the united nations to protest the crackdown .


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  the separate trials of two prominent democracy advocates for inciting subversion of the state opened thursday morning 


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