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There is evidence, not cited in An Intimate History, that Zeldin may be onto something. Consider that new font of chatter known as E-mail. Here is a mode of talk that is raunchy as well as revelatory, clubby as well as all enveloping. Friendships as well as enmities between...
No matter how vehemently he may deny it--and he does--the Cuban leader cannot escape the fact that after 36 years of wily international gamesmanship, he is stranded on the wrong side of history. The Soviet patrons who financed his ``socialist paradise'' for three decades have collapsed. The communist...
By now they're probably a red dot special atK-mart or in the sale bin at CVS, anotherpost-season candy that didn't come close toselling out. Each year, confectioners produce 10billion Valentine's Day conversation hearts:enough to cross the continent five times with suchsweet nothings as LUV...
In addition to melting snows, what swamped the Continent's richest countries under the century's highest water levels was a persistent stream of warm air blowing off the Atlantic and producing marathon rainfalls. Last month Belgium received more than three times its normal amount of rain. From the Rhine...
In Japan, at least, scientists may also have been looking and listening in the wrong places. Japanese seismologists understandably have positioned underground sensors to pick up rumblings along the notorious faults that run under the Pacific off Japan; they are believed to be the source of the devastating 1923 temblor...