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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Basically, I'm too tired to finish writing this column. If only my roommates could understand how much sleep means to me, maybe they would speak in whispers after 11 p.m. and tiptoe around the common room. Maybe they would learn sign language...
...wars in Central America have never had much in common except for the angst they give the U.S. And so it was not really surprising that the same week that saw a daunting shift to the right in El Salvador also brought forth the first bipartisan U.S. policy toward Nicaragua this decade. The Bush Administration seems unsure how to manage the collapse of the long U.S. effort to build a strong centrist government in El Salvador. But it has accomplished a sharp break with the Reaganite past in cementing an accord with the Democratic Congress to wind down the futile...
...aspiration is to create pan-Arab unity from Mauritania to the gulf. Arabs have a common language and history. You can scarcely find a family in Lebanon that does not have relatives in Syria. We are one people. But Israel * is another story. The Israelis are an alien people with another heritage and another history...
Also fueling India's wider ambitions is the desire to alter the common perception, particularly in the West, that it remains a backward nation mired in superstition and squalor. In fact, alongside the impoverished land of beggars and cardboard shacks there has risen a high-tech, postindustrial state led by an army of self-confident and efficient engineers, scientists and military officers. In the southern city of Bangalore, the two exist side by side: women collect tree branches for firewood, while a short distance away, some of India's brightest technicians hunch over an IBM 3090 mainframe computer to design...
...most common biometric security system so far is the fingerprint scanner. In Japan a developer is installing the devices in 360 luxury homes as a security selling point. A health spa in Denver employs a print scanner to keep track of how often its members use the facilities. MAPCO Inc. of Tulsa relies on a system from Identix, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., to ensure that only authorized truck drivers are allowed to transport loads of dangerous gases...