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Tropical dry forests differ from rain forests in that their precipitation is seasonal. During the rainy period, the landscape is verdant, but during the five to six months of the year that are rainless (early December to mid-May in Costa Rica), many trees lose their leaves. Unlike the temperate zone's deciduous hardwood forests, however, they do not become fully dormant. Instead, the bare trees flower and bear fruit, which nourishes a variety of mammals and insects. Centuries ago, such vegetation covered 60% of the forest regions of Latin America, India, Southeast Asia, Africa and northern Australia...
...dispatched Deputy Secretary of State John Whitehead to testify at a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Whitehead directly contradicted Reagan's repeated assertions that U.S. contacts with Tehran had caused Iran to moderate its support of terrorism. Said Whitehead: "I don't like to differ with my President, but I believe there is still some continuing evidence of Iranian involvement in terrorism." One U.S. official considered Whitehead's testimony "tantamount to a declaration...
Influenced by scholarly skepticism about Mark's priority, Mann decided to examine particularly the ways in which the three Gospels differ about the order of events in Jesus' life. Where such differences exist, Mann shows, Mark rarely departs significantly from Matthew or Luke. There is agreement in most cases between the accounts in Mark and Matthew and, less frequently, between Mark and Luke. To Mann, that is strong evidence that Mark's Gospel derives from the other two. In addition, where Mark and Matthew coincide, both narratives are usually very similar in substance. One of many examples, Mann notes...
...blocked by the Swiss government. Senior military sources disclosed that armed forces commanders, including Ramos, had given the President a letter proposing that she delegate all authority concerning national security to the Defense Minister and asking for her answer by Jan. 6. In addition, the commanders, whose political goals differ from those of the Enrile group, presented Aquino with a list of further demands. Among them: the dismissal of several ministers reputed to be incompetent, corrupt or too far to the left, and a tougher line against the Communists...
Quoting the French philospoher Rousseau, Lloyd said that "Plato had abolished the feminine sphere and that actually men and women differ in mind...