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The Los Angeles Times and USA Today lead with a court-ordered scientific panel's finding of no credible evidence that silicone breast implants cause disease, a story that also makes the New York Times front, but runs inside at the Washington Post . The WP goes with the House Judiciary Committee's ever-increasing hardening of partisan lines concerning impeachment.
But the hardening effect of plain nouns can be detected with regard to other peoples.
The papers continue to track the hardening of the U.N./NATO position regarding Yugoslavia.
Its international commentator, Martin Woollacott, wrote that the indictment, combined with the commitment of more ground troops, a hardening of NATO's peace terms, and the intensification of the air campaign, represents "a new strategy."
While Pompeii was incinerated by volcanic cinders, a minimum of 20 m (65 ft) of ash and mud swamped Herculaneum, hardening and covering the houses in a protective crust that kept upper stories and even some of the woodwork intact.