Word: path
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...more remarkable considering that he is a member of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam that accounts for only 11% of his nation's population, which is predominantly Sunni Muslim. In a sense, it was Assad's religion that put him on the path to power. With few career opportunities available to a non-Sunni, Assad entered the military academy at 22; by 25, he was an air force officer. Around that time, the ambitious Assad became active in the country's Baath Party, which advocates a mixture of socialism and Arab nationalism...
Still, most of the children who attended Brill's school are condemned to follow a path away from Jewish tradition, leaving both scholarship and conscience behind. Among them is Brill's only son, Naphtali, upon whom the father had pinned his hopes for redemption. Naphtali is headed not for the Sorbonne, where Joseph hoped he might bear "Jerusalem athwart the Louvre," but to the University of Miami, where he studies business administration...
Mexico has expressed far more interest than the U.S. in pursuing the path of negotiations. In 1981 Mexico joined France in a declaration that recognized the leftist insurgents in El Salvador as a "representative political force" that should be invited to join in negotiations with the government. Mexico is also a founding member of the Contadora group, named for the Panamanian island on which the foreign ministers of Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela first met last January to search for a solution to Central America's problems...
When about 150 of the women started a 15-mile march from Seneca Falls to their camp near Romulus, 300 residents of the nearby village of Waterloo (pop. 598) blocked their path. One man brandished a shotgun and was arrested. The women sat quietly on the street; 52 were arrested for disorderly conduct. Many were detained for five days in a school before charges of disorderly conduct were dropped. When nearly 1,700 protesters approached the depot two days later, residents shouted, "Commies, go home!" and waved American flags. After local and state police permitted 244 of the women...
...psychologists call "a strong avoidance-reaction pattern." They turned aside and squirmed and tried to avoid being struck, though they had no previous experience that would make them think that the approaching object would hit them. When such a cube or its shadow approached the babies on an angled path that would miss them, however, the babies followed its motion with their eyes but showed no sign of anxiety. "The consummate skill of these infants in predicting the path of the moving object is astonishing," says Psychologist Jane Flannery Jackson, "and their evident wish to avoid objects on a collision...