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...settlers and developers, often backed by corrupt politicians, who are razing the forests to lay claim to the land. On the other are hundreds of fledgling conservation groups, along with the Indian tribes and rubber tappers whose way of life will be destroyed if the forests disappear. The clash has already produced the world's most celebrated environmental martyr, Chico Mendes, a leader of the rubber tappers who was murdered for trying to stand in the way of ranchers...
...court has been asked to decide whether there is a constitutional right of privacy broad enough to allow Cruzan's family to disconnect the feeding tubes that nourish her, and thereby to let her die. An alliance of disability-rights activists and antiabortion groups has already begun to clash with patients' advocates and civil libertarians in what promises to be a bitter battle...
...university -- a specialist in the 19th century industrial novel, no less. To bolster her chance of a permanent appointment, Robyn goes along with a university scheme to shadow Vic's movements for one day a week in the interests of better academic-industrial understanding. The result: temperaments and cultures clash. Complications multiply. Romance, of course, blooms. Wittily rueful insights emerge...
...those occasions when the antagonists do fight at close range, the results can be fearsome. In a month-long clash ending last May, soldiers battled intensely on a mountain and ridges near the Chumic Glacier. Both sides dispatched men in a furious race to an icy 21,300-ft.-high peak that commanded the area. "The secret in this terrain," says an Indian officer, "is to be the first on top." Seeing that the Indians would in fact get there first, the Pakistanis took a gamble: in howling winds they tied two soldiers to the runners of a helicopter...
...Guskin either had no larger vision of the play or could not express it. The performances clash in tone and degenerate into monologues and star turns, all but devoid of emotional connection save in the first tender flirtation between Pfeiffer and the disguised Mastrantonio. By far the worst offender is Goldblum, who seemingly has no clue about his character. In a blatant pitch for cheap laughs, he relies on grimaces and gestures from The Fly, topping them off with a pantomime of catching and eating some insect. At best the show skitters along the surface of a script rich...