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...implications of the trial. Lamenting that the Israeli Defense Forces were being used in the West Bank not to defeat an enemy army but to subdue civilians, the Jerusalem Post observed last week: "On such a mission, no army can long keep its virtues and its values intact." -By William E. Smith. Reported by Harry Kelly/Jerusalem and Johanna McGeary/ Washington
...20th century was born in the trenches of World War I and Robert Graves attended, with bloody hands and a shell splinter whistling through his lung. He described the "goddawfulness" in Good-bye to All That (1929), an autobiography that survives rereading with its old pleasures and astonishments intact. There was, for example, the official report that Graves had died of wounds when, in fact, he was recovering. Remarked Siegfried Sassoon, a greatly relieved comrade-in-arms and fellow poet: "Silly old devil... he always manages to do things differently from other people...
...know at this time whether any portion of the satellite reached the earth's surface intact," the Pentagon statement said. "U.S. nuclear fallout data collections assets have been instructed to watch for increased levels of radiation in the atmosphere, but it is impossible to say at this time what the result of this effort might...
Syberberg's problem is symbols: there are too many of them for even a work as complex as Parsifal to support comfortably. "I have tried to keep Wagner's work intact," says the director, "but at the same time to make a film about Wagner, about ourselves and about the future." That is at least one thing too many. As he did in his 7½-hour Our Hitler, a perplexing, impassioned examination of German culture, Syberberg employs symbols the way others use props; in fact he uses them as props. In Parsifal, some of the actual terrain...
Manipulating the body's genes to cure disease has been a long-sought but elusive goal for scientists. The genes, discrete bits of DNA on the chromosomes in each cell, control all body activities by directing the production of essential chemicals. When the genes are intact, they send flawless manufacturing messages, and the body functions normally. But if damaged, they produce garbled instructions and hence disease. In so-called genetic surgery, doctors hope eventually to use recombinant-DNA techniques to cut out "bad"genes and substitute "good" ones. Now, though, there may be a more immediately applicable...