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Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, the man who negotiated the deal with the P.L.O., waxes poetic on this score: "Once we shall be over the disputes of the past, all of us will join forces to build a new Middle East like the United States or like United Europe: a...
Committed MUDders find the experience highly addictive -- much to the consternation of parents and computer-system administrators. Some students play as much as 80 hours a week, neglecting their schoolwork and overloading their local computer networks. Amherst College banned MUDs from the campus computer system in 1992; Australia has gone...
The numbers, naturally, lie -- or only tell smidgens of the truth. The Nouvel Observateur poll neglected to point out that a Gallup survey one year ago had pronounced France among the unhappiest societies on the Continent. The poll also disclosed that 72% of French are in fact less happy today...
AMY BIEHL DID NOT GIVE HER LIFE TO Africa, as she had planned. Instead Africa took her life -- not the democratic continent she had dreamed of and worked to achieve, but the one she thought she saw beyond, the Africa of hatred and futility.
Sensing an untold story, Sidey hit the rails to interview people at all levels of the freight industry. He rode a Conrail train up the west side of the Hudson River Valley, getting an engineer's-eye view of spectacular scenery; half a continent away, he observed the switchings, couplings...