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UNITED States; GERMANY

Comments on current events for August 21, 2000. Approval of digital mammography machines for detecting breast cancer by the United States Food and Drug Administration; Creation of a missile dubbed the Iskander-E by Russia; Hours that retail stores in Germany can be open; Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush's idea for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service; Opening of the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana; Review of the book 'The Battle of New Orleans,' by Robert V. Remini.