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...trusting attitude toward all these Israeli assurances began with Ronald Reagan. The President has been slow to educate himself in even the basics of Middle East policy. One aide recalls that Reagan recently examined a map of the area, measured the distance between points in Israel and Lebanon with his fingers according to the mileage scale, and exclaimed, "Gosh, they really are close!" Lacking a firm understanding of Middle East politics and history, the President maintained the instinctive sympathy toward Israel that he has displayed throughout his political career, and his aides swallowed their growing doubts...
...longer health. Another says that violent assaults may spring from explosive family tensions. "Overage criminals feel they are no longer bound to a system that has no place for them," concludes Criminologist Gary Feinberg of Biscayne College in Miami. "They are adrift, and society has provided them with neither map nor itinerary nor friendly shore...
...abreast of events back home, the paper has a two-page spread of news items from each of the 50 states, and a similar state-by-state summary of college, school and amateur sports. The clean makeup features sharply reproduced color photos, charts and a vivid, detailed national weather map...
...family car, he just types in the make of his auto and his address. The machine will then provide the name and location of the nearest garage servicing that model. To speak to a friend in America, the customer presses another button and the screen shows a map of the world marked with the costs and dialing procedures for the different countries. The telephone computer can find a name even if it is not being spelled correctly. Given the phonetic spelling of a name, the computer provides the phone numbers and addresses of all the names that sound the same...
hill, as the wayfarer battles a curve and then a second, sharper right turn, two other obligatory props of a New England town blur past: the village store and the post office. Bryant Pond would be a dot on the map, located by reference to nearby towns with such names as Norway, Paris and Mexico, if it were not for one curious fact: this little way station happens to be the home of the last crank-telephone system in the U.S. Here is how it works. Somewhere in the modest stillness of Bryant Pond, someone rotates a crank, jangling...