Word: explains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sound bites, asking the follow-up questions and then getting on to totally fresh stuff. It's a wonderful moment when you realize you've been able to sort out those things he really knows, those things that are smart but that he has not been able to explain well, and those things that still do not make much sense. You can't do that on TV. You can't do it in a one-hop fuselage interview with Bill Clinton. And you certainly can't do it with George Bush...
...National Gallery's exhibition, previously shown to packed galleries in Berlin and Amsterdam, is meant to explain the committee's methods and make the case for their soundness. It consists of two sections. In the first are 51 paintings now agreed to be indubitably by the master -- the finest "pure" Rembrandt show in memory. The second consists of a dozen "Rembrandts" now assigned to artists who worked with him; each of these is shown with two or three other paintings known to be by that pupil. In all, it is a wonderfully illuminating show, and it makes an unanswerable case...
...days later, back in Washington, I had an opportunity to get a clearer sense of Pentagon thinking. Along with several other curious civilians, I spent most of a day listening to American military officers explain how they are adjusting to the budgetary stringencies and geopolitical complexities of the post-cold war era. They are under orders to reduce the size of the U.S. military 25% in the next three years and cut by more than half the number of G.I.s in Europe...
...group of scientists at the California Institute of Technology has discovered that magnetite is found in human brains as well. That could eventually explain why some people have a better sense of direction -- perhaps they have more magnetite. The presence of magnetically sensitive crystals in the brain could conceivably explain the health problems some people claim are caused by electromagnetic fields. Until now, no one knew of anything in the body that could be affected by these fields. One caveat from a researcher: the magnetic fields from high-tension power lines, often cited as prime culprits, are not strong enough...
Capital punishment is not an issue in Western Europe: there is virtually no agitation to bring it back. It is highly controversial in the U.S., of course, but far less so than it ought to be. There is no way to explain the opinion polls that show large and growing majorities in favor of the death penalty. Today 2,588 people pace the death row cells of America's prisons. Another joins them, on average, every day of the year. Fourteen died in 1991; 16 more have died so far this year. As the pace of executions mounts...