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...them -- perhaps because they are so close to that state of childishness." Emma's parents were certainly close to her. "Anything I was interested in made them happy," she says. "I had no rebellious stage, because my parents gave me so much freedom that I didn't need to rebel...
...Over the past 20 months, according to captured documents and engineering plans now trickling out of Iraq, the government has nearly completed work on a huge project of four major canals and dozens of dams and embankments that will sap the water from the reeds and open the isolated rebel - strongholds to Iraqi tanks, possibly as early as this summer. "We no longer think of victory," says a Shi'ite leader based in neighboring Iran. "Our rifles are no match for his tanks. If Saddam falls, it will have to be to someone else. We continue to fight simply because...
...SEVERAL HUNDRED REBEL INSURGENTS SUDDENLY decide to do battle in a wildlife preserve filled with apes, is this guerrilla warfare or gorilla warfare? That's a tough question now that Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park, home to half the world's surviving population of African mountain gorillas (large, hairy herbivores) has been overrun by guerrillas (somewhat smaller omnivores in camouflage with machine guns...
...outraged and opinion leaders call for an end to the barbarism. And each time the West, led by the U.S., shows itself unwilling to intervene with force. Last week it happened again. While the Clinton Administration was preoccupied with its airdrops of food and medicine into eastern Bosnia, rebel Serbs mounted a furious artillery-and-tank offensive against the same Muslim enclaves the U.S. Air Force was trying to hit with parachuted supplies...
They call it cyberpunk, a late-20th century term pieced together from CYBERNETICS (the science of communication and control theory) and PUNK (an antisocial rebel or hoodlum). Within this odd pairing lurks the essence of cyberpunk culture. It's a way of looking at the world that combines an infatuation with high-tech tools and a disdain for conventional ways of using them. Originally applied to a school of hard-boiled science-fiction writers and then to certain semi-tough computer hackers, the word cyberpunk now covers a broad range of music, art, psychedelics, smart drugs and cutting-edge technology...