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...current Middle East crisis, with Iraq ranged against moderate Arab states and the West, is sometimes described as an economic conflict: poor Arabs vs. rich, the "Arab world" (a fictitious concept) vs. the oil-greedy industrialized world. But that is at best a partial truth. Such economic issues are really elements of those other, overarching battles of nationalism and tribalism, conflicting faiths and competing power...
...after the Civil War and Reconstruction; it reformed itself after the cruelties of the 19th century industrial surge and the excesses of the robber barons; it picked itself up after the Great Depression; it made tremendous strides in race relations through the civil rights movement; it achieved at least partial healing after the bitter national split over Vietnam and the counterculture's nihilism...
...partial results showed that 57 percent of first-year students favor a policy of complete divestment from South Africa, 33 percent favor maintaining the administration's current policy of selective divestment and 10 percent do not wish the University to have any divestment policy whatsoever...
Young has been an ambassador between different worlds from his childhood on. A Southerner in the North, then a partial outsider in the South, he could talk to all sides. In the 1976 presidential campaign, he convinced Northern liberals that Jimmy Carter was acceptable on racial matters. When Carter asked him to be ambassador to the U.N., Young said Barbara Jordan was better qualified. Carter, according to Young, replied, "You're right. But you have the one thing she doesn't have -- a connection with Dr. King. If we are to be convincing on the matter of human rights around...
From the fruitless quest for the legendary Fountain of Youth to the current popularity of plastic surgery and Retin-A face cream, the search for ways to erase the sags and wrinkles of aging has never stopped. Now it appears that a partial antidote to the ravages of time may already lie within the human body. Last week, researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Milwaukee reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that injections of a naturally occurring substance called human growth hormone can firm up skin, build muscles and trim...