Test ban treaty doomed in Senate showdown
The Clinton administration pushed for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty while facing likely defeat in the Senate. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson defended the stockpile and lead role, but with minimal Republican support, leaders planned to vote next week amid calls to delay.
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Study links overweight to shorter lifespans in adults
An American Cancer Society led study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows overweight individuals face higher premature mortality rates, especially from heart disease and cancer. The research notes more deaths across ages, with black women showing an exception, prompting calls for societal changes to diet and activity.
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Starry bulges hint at galaxy formation history
NASA reports two teams study bulges in spiral galaxies using Hubble telescope. Peletier's group finds early forming large bulges in 20 spirals and older outer disks. Carollo's team sees early bulges fed by gas from disks, fueling new star birth and central growth. Both studies aim to explain how elliptical bulges formed long ago.
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Eight Years Later Texas Yogurt Shop Killings Arrests
Four men were arrested in connection with the 1991 slayings of four teenage girls at the I Can t Believe It s Yogurt shop in Austin. One suspect, Robert Burns Springsteen Jr., 24, was arrested in Charleston, West Virginia, on capital murder charges. Other arrests followed in Texas. two juveniles were taken into custody and unnamed defendants were detained in Lewisville and Lockhart. Springsteen allegedly boasted about the killings.
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Expert: FSBI and Davidians fired on final Waco day
An expert for a House committee says videotape from the 1993 Waco siege shows the FBI fired on April 19, 1993, contradicting FBI claims no rounds were fired. A separate briefing to Waco Special Counsel John Danforth confirmed that gunfire occurred between government forces and Branch Davidians that day.
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DNA Code Used to Identify Milwaukee Rapist in Court Papers
Milwaukee prosecutors name a suspect by DNA profile in court papers for three 1993 rapes, arguing the clock on statutes of limitations stops while an arrest warrant remains active. The approach mirrors a Kansas case where a 1991 DNA profile identified a suspect in multiple rapes.
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