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Nonetheless, Washington still hopes that by depicting the partial pullback as the first step in a complete Israeli withdrawal, it may be able to prevail upon Syria to remove some of its soldiers as well. As Reagan explained at his White House press conference last week, "It certainly will give us a better case for breaking the roadblock that has been established by Syria and persuading them to keep their original promise that when others withdrew, they would withdraw." That is the essence of the message U.S. Special Envoy Robert McFarlane is expected to carry to Syria on his first...
Kafka described himself accurately enough as "weakly and slight," but he had the strength to endure and prevail. He did so by vanishing into his writing. "I don't have 'literary interests,' " he wrote Felice, "literature is what I'm made of." Human relations, love, even health were of no concern; all that came to matter was language, "man's greatest invention...
...rode 800 miles from Santa Fe to Fort Leavenworth in an astonishing 23 days. The amateur naturalist was even interested in prairie dogs. On all fours he tried to capture one alive to obtain a study skin. A happy combination of luck, skill and attitude helped Walker to prevail over the wilderness; he died a proud and prosperous rancher in 1876 at the age of 77. Westering Man offers an unfamiliar frontier landscape. Here, the Indians are con men, whisky distilling is a regional pastime, and meteorites terrify intrepid explorers. The mood is antic, but the True West...
...execute a dozen architectural drawings of their estate. When not sharing their carnal favors, he is producing sketches that are precise, refined and troubling-for in them are tantalizing visual hints of a murder, perhaps of the master of the house. Will the draftsman's malefic ingenuity prevail over his hostesses' aristocratic arrogance...
Doctors have long known that ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun produces profound changes in human skin. "Even one day's exposure can cause damage," says Dermatologist Fred Urbach of Temple University in Philadelphia. The most insidious rays are the short wavelength UVB, which prevail during the peak sun hours (between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.). But new research has shown that even longer UVA waves, which are present all day, can promote skin cancer...