Word: border
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Wisconsin and Illinois have a new border problem: transplant wars. Wisconsinites, fearing new federal rules will let Chicago hospitals take a disproportionate share of donated organs, are leading a group of states--including North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota--in trying to exclude Illinois from a new organ-sharing network. They anticipate that Illinois could acquire as many as 120 donated livers at their expense in the next four years...
...rivalry between the communist leaderships in Moscow and Beijing to keep its enemies divided. But in these days of post-ideological, yet increasingly chilly, peace, Russia and China are linking arms against the U.S. Presidents Boris Yeltsin and Jiang Zemin held talks Wednesday at a regional summit in the border nation of Kyrgyzstan, and both emphasized the need to build a common front against the U.S. Jiang warned of a "new display of hegemony relying on force (that) has already drawn concern on the international scene," while Yeltsin complained that "some nations are trying to build a world order that...
...centuries of mutual suspicion and hostility tend to make such alliances between them shortlived." Moscow and Beijing are expected to conclude a deal this week in which Russia will sell a large number of SU-30 jet fighters and other military hardware to China. Although border disputes had fueled their feud during the 1960s, both countries also now share an interest in resolving those and developing a common approach to Islamic secessionist challenges. Most important, though, Moscow and Beijing share an intense resentment at being relegated by Washington to the role of character actors on the international stage. Where...
Hansen deftly conveys these early probings at the border of myth and medicine. The sticky part of the novel is meshing Perlman's conventional musical opinions with his then radical psychology and the hocus-pocus of Sylvie/Nina's deep dive into legendary Atlantis. When the themes are eventually resolved in a kind of hypno-seance, Perlman's conflicted nature is dramatically illustrated. The music lover in the good doctor reacts against unmelodic compositions, while his physician side wants to reduce the lyrics of the subconscious to tuneless abstractions. He appears to have caught an incurable but nonfatal case of modern...
...government of Hun Sen. The last Khmer Rouge bigwig still at large, Ta Mok, a one-legged general known as the Butcher, was captured in March and now awaits trial. For the first time in more than a generation, there are no Cambodians in refugee camps across the border in Thailand, and the Khmer Rouge, held responsible for the death of 1.7 million Cambodians during their four years in power alone, are silent...