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...than accomplished. The U.S. last week suggested a tight naval blockade of Iraqi and Kuwaiti ports, but it has yet to find many takers among its allies. Halting the oil in the pipelines would mean persuading Turkey and Saudi Arabia to shut off the tap, or turn a blind eye while the U.S. blew up the lines. Both countries are vulnerable to Iraqi reprisals, especially Saudi Arabia...
...Pentagon has proposed. As chairman of that powerful body since 1984, Democrat Les Aspin of Wisconsin has backed most of the Defense Department's plans for costly missiles, airplanes and ships. Now the staggering federal deficit and a diminishing Soviet military threat have Dellums and Aspin seeing almost eye to eye on cuts in military spending. Following their lead last week, the committee slashed $24 billion from the Bush Administration's $307 billion defense budget...
...complete mystery. Lee does not take the time to explain this. He seems concerned only with driving home the virtues of the family and having his film neatly end the same way it began. The film opens with the young Gilliam practicing the trumpet under his mother's watchful eye while his friends urge him to come outside and play; the film ends with Gilliam's son, Indigo, and his son's friends reprising the same scene more than two decades later...
Hitchens has a wonderful eye for zany manifestations of Brit kitsch. In 1890, for example, some idealistic Shakespeareans decided to release in New York City's Central Park every bird mentioned by the bard -- more than 50 species in all -- that was not already native to the region. Instead of filling the city's air with the song of larks and nightingales, the experiment introduced to America the common European starling, a dirty, prolific pest that soon ousted New York's native bluebirds from their nesting places. If there is a moral here, Hitchens refrains from drawing...
Kimber said Gilette currently uses both the draize eye-irritancy test and the lethal-dose toxicity test in their laboratories, both of which were developed in the first half of the century. The draize test, involves immobilizing rabbits and dropping caustic substances into their eyes. In the lethal-dose toxicity test, poisonous substances are sprayed into the animals' faces...