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...appropriations bill, passed almost immediately by his Armed Services Committee and very likely to become law. Devoid of many of Clinton's ambiguous locutions, it continued the substantive war Nunn had waged in the hearings. While sparing the President's distinction between orientation and conduct, it eliminated even the faintest possibility that a soldier could admit gay orientation, in public or private. It dropped a clause promising "equal enforcement" among straights as well as gays of a military code of conduct that forbids acts of sodomy. And there was one major difference: although Nunn did not return...
...away from the nearest village and the temptations of < palm wine, the Pygmies begin to come into their own. Even with 14 years' experience, Fay can still lose a trail, but Ndokanda, a former elephant hunter, or any of the other Pygmies can read the very faintest imprint with a glance. In the forest they are utterly self-reliant, creating cord from vines, cups from leaves and bed mats from bark. Still, they are apprehensive about this forest, and when Fay tells them where we are going, Samory says, "Mokele Mbembe lives there." Fay is convinced that the Pygmies...
...stone and air. Here, the empty spaces, the holes in the white love knot of figures, are as interesting as the limbs, bodies and heads. Walk round it and you see a kind of interstitial fugue of tunnels, gaps and fissures. No photograph can give more than the faintest idea of how this sculpture unfolds, closes and changes under the moving...
...Analog systems, which translate sound waves captured by microphones into electronic representations -- or analogs -- amplify the background noise along with the voice, and wax < and wane depending on atmospheric conditions. Using digital technology, the new phones achieve quality equal to what earthlings get calling across town, even with the faintest signal...
...millions of dollars. Let's not kid ourselves--this is a consumer culture, and music gets listened to because it gets bought. It may be art, but distributors don't call it product for nothing . Music listeners eat the stuff, and the alternative fan is particularly finicky about the faintest touch of staleness...