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...Asian portion is no less ambitious, involving the rechanneling of Siberia's mighty Ob River and its major tributary, the Irtysh. The original idea was to carry the water south by building a canal some 1,500 miles long, perhaps by nuclear blasting. But that proposal drew so many objections in the West that Soviet planners are now talking of rerouting the water along old riverbeds revealed by satellite photographs...
...quarter was sealed off, helicopter gunships attacked insurgents from outlying villages rushing to aid the rebels, and heavy artillery was wheeled up. In the end, the vicious fighting was house to house. The government said it had discovered an arms cache containing 1,000 machine guns. Some ob servers believe that the arms were supplied by opponents of the Assad regime in Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon, and were being stockpiled in preparation for a major challenge to Assad's rule...
Still, when a woman postpones child bearing, she increases the chance that she will not be fit when the time comes. "Her gamble," says Chicago Ob-Gyn Allan Charles, "is that she won't have diabetes or high blood pressure." Or, for that matter, arthritis, respiratory ailments, obesity or kidney disease. All of these conditions make pregnancy more difficult. Diabetes and hypertension, for example, can interfere with the normal development of the placenta. Though some of these ailments can be controlled by diet and medication, their incidence increases with...
...Unfortunately, Israel seems to believe that ignoring the Palestinians will, in time, make them disappear. As evidenced by their pride and obsessive desire to return to their lands, the Palestinians are hardly willing to conform to this wish. Since we support the Israelis unswervingly, I think it is our ob ligation to awaken them before their dream world collapses into a bloodbath...
...each other, utterly without benefit of story. Kurys tries for the same artful simplicity. She introduces an appealing girl of 13 named Anne (Eléonore Klarwein) and her more worldly and matter-of-fact sister Frédérique (Odile Michel), who is 15. The director merely ob serves their small adventures as they grow a year older. Anne, a bit disdainful, watches Frédérique conduct a flirtation at the seashore; the two of them endure the strictures of a frightful day school; they cope with their mother (Anouk Ferjac), and she with them; Anne...