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...Finger Lakes region of New York State on July 4 was to protest the storage of nuclear weapons at the nearby Seneca Army Depot. Calling themselves the Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice, the women, mostly white, well educated and feminist, sought to pattern their demonstration after the Women's Peace Camp protest at England's Greenham Common, a projected site for U.S. cruise missiles. There, several thousand women have assembled, on and off, since September 1981. But by last week the Seneca protest had mainly managed to provoke an angry clash...
...President Hissène Habré, bringing the total U.S. commitment to $25 million. The reason for the U.S. concern: Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi had dramatically stepped up his support for rebels trying to topple Habré. Said a senior State Department official: "There is a continent-wide pattern of Libyan destabilization, Libyan terrorist activities, Libyan aggression. We are in the middle of a small-scale, but very important conflict...
Police's lead singer and premier song writer, who is called Sting, explains: "Jung believed there was a large pattern to life, that it wasn't just chaos. Our song Synchronicity II is about two parallel events that aren't connected logically or causally, but symbolically." That's a tall order for a five-minute four-second tune, but Sting is a fleet writer and his song can carry the weight. Drummer Stewart Copeland has a slightly different, more bemused explanation. He maintains that "Sting is in his Germanic-scientists-of-unpronounceable-names phase. I know...
...Harvard's Center for Cognitive Studies, infants as young as two weeks were confronted with a cube (or sometimes only the shadow of a cube) that began moving slowly toward them. When it seemed about to hit them, they showed what 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...
...name dropping seem more than a bid for easy topicality. He writes about people whose lives evoke sad songs and wailing pedal steel guitars. They work at checkout counters, wait on tables, tend bar or fry hamburgers at fast-food outlets. All are somehow stranded, searching for a pattern to their existence beyond the wet circles left behind by their beer cans or cocktail glasses...