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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crowe knows, past protestations by the Kremlin of its peaceful intentions have been belied by the size and menace of its war machine. Soviet strategists have traditionally stressed that the best defense is a good offense. To the outside world, the result has often looked more offensive than defensive. Gorbachev and Akhromeyev tried to convince Crowe that something fundamental has changed. "Nonoffensive defense" is a key part of the vocabulary of Soviet "new thinking," and it was a major theme of Crowe's tour. The U.S.S.R. would launch its missiles, he was told, only in retaliation, never in a first...
...forest fires. Then, seeing a greenish fringe and vertical streamers stretching like ribbons above the horizon, he realized what was happening. He raced to a telephone and called his wife and friends, awakening them and insisting they share the view. "A chance like this doesn't come along very often," says Avellar. "To see the northern lights is very humbling and awe-inspiring. You realize the sun is just going about its business and making our nighttime sky glow without any trouble at all. It makes you wonder what would happen if the sun ever really...
...present psychotic. Not happy-go-lucky, devil-may-care living in the present, but the real thing. Some individuals by reason of accident or disease (generally alcoholism) suffer from what is called Korsakoff's psychosis: they have no memory. Not that they have forgotten their ancient childhood memories. They often retain these. But they have lost entirely the capacity to establish new memories. Everything they see, everything they hear, everything they think, they forget within seconds. Introduce yourself to a Korsakoffian, leave the room, and return a minute later. He will have no recollection...
What riles Joe Heitz involves a subject that mystifies many oenophiles, even though millions of marketing dollars are affected: American Viticultural Areas, often informally called appellations. Heitz is prominent among the winemakers who are fighting a proposal put forward by many of his neighboring vintners that would designate new AVAs within the Napa Valley. As the nation's most prestigious wine-producing area, the lush valley north of San Francisco is entitled to an AVA, which Napa's wine producers proudly display on their labels. But partly because the valley's vineyards have proliferated from 40 in the early 1970s...
...precocious child who read insatiably, Wuer often visited his grandparents in Xinjiang, near the Soviet border, to learn Uighur. But he spent most of his boyhood and school years in Beijing in an apartment adorned by a portrait of Mao put there by his father...