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...Once on the surface, the body insulates the underlying ice from the sun, causing it to form a pedestal as the surrounding ice recedes. Eventually, the ice breaks up, and the seal, mummified by the dry, cold climate, drifts out to sea. As layers of warm and cold air bend light and play tricks on the eye, it can appear that the seal is standing as it sails off toward its Avalon...
...year is Republican to the core, but he is not conservative because of any fear of diversity, rather because he has certain opinions and is not afraid to hold to them. I find the sincerity of his views far more admirable than the earnest liberalism of many Democrats who bend over backward to show the world just how free thinking they are. Politically, we are opposites, but I believe that he is one of the finest people I have met in my first year at Harvard. --David Egan...
Reggae, like rap, has always carried within its grooves the roots of rebellion. Classics such as Bob Marley's War helped establish it as music for dance parties and political parties alike. Recently, however, many of the reggae songs that have managed to bend American ears have lacked social content...
...terrorism against Israel. "There will always be fanatics," he said. ?What we expect is not 100 percent success but 100 percent effort. And we have not seen that." Mostly absent from this meticulous accounting was the settlement at Har Homa, the issue on which he likely will have to bend. To Netanyahu's calls for a halt to terrorism, Arafat calls for a halt to the settlement. President Clinton today renewed his call for a statement from Yasser Arafat promising "zero tolerance" for terrorism, and said he would welcome "any reasonable opportunity" to revive the stalled talks. The President...
...found horrific expression Thursday when a Jordanian border guard opened f ire on a group of Israeli schoolgirls, killing seven and wounding at least six more before he was overpowered by other Jordanian soldiers. TIME?s Bill Stewart reports that the girls were visiting a park at a horseshoe bend in the Jordan River, an ex ceptionally lovely area that has been Jordanian territory since Israel ceded the land in 1994. Seizing the weapon from a fellow soldier, the guard opened fire on the children, who were some 50 yards away, chasing them down a hillside as they fled...