Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look like much, but they pass through the brand-new Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah--a 1.7 million-acre tract that many consider the most beautiful spot in the U.S. The trails that crisscross it are scars from the latest tactic in one of the region's most bitter land wars...
...compensate local mining interests by swapping federal lands of equal value for those that lie within the monument. Utah Senator Bob Bennett sniffs at this, insisting that there is no land of equal value. Bennett is also unimpressed with Clinton's promise that all the current uses of the region, except mining, would be unchanged by its new status. The Senator wants that pledge written into law. "We'll see how sincere they are," he says...
...dead soldiers were a virtual portrait of Israel's incredible diversity. They included not only Jews, but also Druze, Bedouins and other Muslims who serve in the Israeli army as patriotic citizens. They came from every region of the nation, from cosmopolitan cities to small agricultural settlements. To us here in America, at Harvard, this loss of human life, of foreign soldiers in a little-understood war, is very distant and impersonal. These dead soldiers were not so very different from any of us, however. Most were between age 18 and 22, the very same age as American college students...
...peace process." Indeed, Israel has learned through experience the price of an insecure Lebanese border. The Palestine Liberation Organization had a ministate in Lebanon in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This situation led to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 in an attempt to protect the Galilee region of Israel from terrorist attacks. While Hizbullah and other Lebanese militias are in no way capable of destroying Israel, they nevertheless present a security threat to Israel proper that cannot be ignored...
When a baby is born, it can see and hear and smell and respond to touch, but only dimly. The brain stem, a primitive region that controls vital functions like heartbeat and breathing, has completed its wiring. Elsewhere the connections between neurons are wispy and weak. But over the first few months of life, the brain's higher centers explode with new synapses. And as dendrites and axons swell with buds and branches like trees in spring, metabolism soars. By the age of two, a child's brain contains twice as many synapses and consumes twice as much energy...