Tuesday, September 8, 1998
Swissair crash: search on for voice recorder
Canadian navy divers have retrieved the flight data recorder from the crash site of Swissair Flight 111, chief investigator Vic Gerden said on Sunday. Gerden said investigators will carry and fly the recorder to an Ottawa laboratory, where a multinational team would decipher the information.
US physicist says he will clone himself
A Chicago physicist, who provoked controversy earlier this year by announcing plans to clone humans, says the first person he will try to copy is himself.
Sugar, wine replace troubled rouble
Some big construction companies in Chelyabinsk didn't have the cash to pay their taxes this spring, so they offered to build a subway system in their city instead. The governments of Ukraine and Moldova have proposed settling their debts to the Russian Gas Monopoly in sugar and wine, knowing that Gazprom has accepted payments from others in the form of steel, turbines, gas pipes, and shares in truck and tractor companies.
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