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...about to pay off in the form of a ceasefire. By week's end it seemed clear, however, that the mission's chances for success were slim, largely because Syrian President Hafez Assad was determined either to bring down the Lebanese government of President Amin Gemayel or bend it to Syria's will...
...newspaper writer, left the cold North and set up residence in the lush remoteness of central Florida. The therapy was successful. She found herself; she found a pleasant local fellow whom she later married; she discovered a passel of good friends in the cracker families living around the creek bend; and out of her experiences she wrote the novel that made her famous, The Yearling, and later her memoir, Cross Creek...
...wife and of the Shanghailanders who, with Jiang Qing, formed the Gang of Four. "In the old days in Yanan," said one friend, "he would listen first, then talk. Now he talked but would not listen." At the end he would mumble and grunt, interpreters had to bend close to Mao's lips to strain sense from the mumbling. But, by then, all those once close to him had been killed or exiled from his inner court. Jiang Qing transmitted his orders...
...Disney Channel features hardcore wholesomeness for 16 hours every day. On Mousercise, mini-Jane Fondas are instructed to bend and stretch while imagining that they are puppets pulled by strings. The Edison Twins is a kind of scientific Hardy Boys in which 16-year-old twins discover the meaning of life and thermodynamic entropy. You and Me, Kid features a Pied Piper-like host who leads children through such activities as storytelling and "let's pretend" fantasies...
...Lowell, Mass., graduate students bend over drafting tables inside the Boott Cotton Mills, which produced textiles from 1835 until 1955. Working with ink on translucent Mylar, one of them delineates the canals that carried water from the Merrimack River to giant turbines beneath the mills. Says Deborah Hurst, from Washington University in St. Louis: "The technology used when these buildings were built is extraordinary...