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The Lowdown On Aspartame (NutraSweet)

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Here comes trouble

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China Tells Taiwan
'One China' - Taiwan Rejects
"One Country, Two Systems"

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It's on again, I guess, as I predicted

March 31 2000

Pentagon orders reconnaissnce troops to Kosovo, tanks and artillery to Macedonia

WASHINGTON, March 30 (AFP) - US Defense Secretary William Cohen on Thursday ordered the deployment of an elite army reconnaissance troops to Kosovo and tanks and artillery to Macedonia to beef up protection of its troops there, the Pentagon said.

The deployments were ordered at the request of the US commander in Kosovo, Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon said.

They come amid rising tensions between the NATO-led forces and both Kosovo Albanians and Serb forces across a buffer zone in Serbia proper.

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Things are hotting up!

March 31 2000

Second Big Iceberg Breaks Off From Antarctica

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A second giant iceberg has broken off from Antarctica and is bumping into a huge iceberg that broke off the Ross Ice Shelf last week, researchers said on Friday.

Matthew Lazzara of the University of Wisconsin's Antarctic Meteorological Research Center found the latest iceberg, which will be named B-17, while scanning images taken from a satellite orbiting the poles.

He said the new iceberg lies to the north and east of Roosevelt Island and is 80 miles by 12 miles (130 km by 20 km). The larger iceberg is 183 miles by 23 miles (295 km by 37 km), roughly the size of Jamaica.

"The high-resolution satellite data that we receive enables us to track these bergs easily, at least in clear conditions," Lazzara said in a statement.

The images show the two giant icebergs, and a third, smaller one known as B-16, jostling one another just off the island.

The researchers said it was not yet clear if the icebergs would pose a threat to shipping.

Researchers say large chunks are breaking off of Antarctica for several reasons, some due to global warming.

They say, for example, that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has been steadily melting since the end of the last ice age. But they also stress that human-induced global warming can speed the process.

Much of Antarctica consists of ice sheets with no ground underneath. If it shrinks, the process could not only help raise ocean levels but could help shift ocean circulation and weather patterns, bringing drought, severe storms and the wider spread of tropical diseases.

The largest iceberg ever reported was seen in 1956 and was 60 miles wide and 208 miles long (95.6 km by 335 km), or 12,000 square miles (48,564 sq km) in area, more than twice the size of the state of Connecticut.

A satellite image of the new iceberg can be viewed at:

http://uwamrc.ssec.wisc.edu/amrc/iceberg.html.

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More ill-will against the USA expressed by Russia

March 31 2000

Russian Duma wants U.N. sanctions on Iraq lifted

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's lower house of parliament urged President-elect Vladimir Putin on Friday to step up efforts to lift U.N. sanctions against Iraq.

The State Duma, where pro-government parties have a majority, voted 259 to 75 for a resolution saying sanctions hit ordinary Iraqis and ran counter to Russian economic interests.

The resolution, initiated by ultra-nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, is not binding on Putin because the constitution says foreign policy is the president's domain.

Iraq owes Russia some $7 billion and Russian oil firms are eagerly awaiting the lifting of sanctions to resume business.

"We cannot allow the United States to use economic sanctions for political purposes," said Nikolai Ryzhkov, a former prime minister of the Soviet Union which cooperated closely with Iraq.

Members of the U.N. Security Council are divided over Iraq, with the United States supporting sanctions and Russia, France and China being more sympathetic to Baghdad.

Former Russian Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov said the Duma declaration would be useful. As Moscow's special envoy, Primakov tried in vain to prevent the 1991 Gulf war that brought the U.N. sanctions.

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