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...1970s and '80s, the region was buffeted by bouts of unrest, but those then taking up arms had independence as their goal?not jihad. By the 1990s the handful of guerrilla bands fighting for a separate state had been largely marginalized by the central government's conciliatory approach. Bangkok pumped development funds into the south, started governing through local leaders, including Muslims, and pardoned a host of insurgents. Relative calm returned, until this year. Now, say experts, what used to be a nationalist agenda pursued by essentially secular groups has been hijacked by Islamic radicalism. "In the post...
...fist and a velvet glove" in the south?stern military action combined with more development aid. "Recruitment [by the militants] is effective because there is so much poverty," he said. "That is why poverty eradication is a major activity that we have to do." So far, however, the dual approach has failed to stop the bloodshed. Nidir Waba, one of the most senior and moderate Muslim leaders in the south, says that despite some improvements, the hard line taken by the military together with memories of the April 28 massacre create a deep distrust. "There is no sincerity," says Nidir...
Keilis-Borok calls his approach "tail wags the dog," the tail referring to patterns of seismic activity that appear to presage large tremors. (He does not try to forecast smaller events, like the earthquake swarms that rumbled beneath Mount St. Helens before it erupted last week, or the more significant quakes that perturbed Parkfield, Calif.) At first he and his colleagues looked for strong quakes that had already occurred, then scrolled backward through years of seismic data. More recently they have been working with current seismic records as well. Their computer programs home in on small quakes that occur...
...artists--who were advised early on by Springsteen to "do no harm" in their public comments--were interested in saying much a cappella. "I'm getting sheets with information on things like grain subsidies," says an amused Buck. "I don't think about this stuff on that level. I approach this whole thing as a guy who plays guitar and feels a particular...
...intellectual demigod; in Paris. Born into a Jewish family in Algeria, he earned his reputation in the 1960s and '70s with a series of philosophical works that combined daunting academic virtuosity with an enlightened playfulness. A man of immense charm, he was the godfather of deconstruction, a critical approach that emphasizes ambiguity; self-reference and multiple, shifting meanings; and unravels texts by teasing out the latent contradictions in them. Although his writings are notoriously elusive, their influence on literary criticism, and the culture at large, was immeasurable. DIED. GORDON COOPER, 77, one of NASA's original seven astronauts; in Ventura...