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...movement rose up and seized several towns in the southern state of Chiapas, leaving at least 145 dead. On Friday those rebels, who call themselves the Zapatista National Liberation Army, suspended their deliberations on a peace accord with the government, citing the country's uncertainties. Taking impetus from the revolt, discontented groups rose across the country, staging sit-ins and land grabs. Then two weeks ago, Alfredo Harp Helu, president of Mexico's largest bank, was kidnapped in Mexico City...
...Islamic Salvation Front, seeking to turn the country into a religious state, has attracted the allegiance of millions in a population ripe with discontent after 30 years of misrule by the one-party socialist government. Declining oil revenues, crushing unemployment, rampant inflation and widespread government corruption have fueled a revolt against the old leadership and a crisis in national identity...
...toward booze and all its works. But that would have subverted the romance of drinking. Hamill still seems to believe in that, in some backhanded way, though he switched to club soda 20 years ago. He even gives boozing a momentary political justification: "Drinking became the medium of my revolt against the era of Eisenhower. Drinking was a refusal to play the conformist game, a denial of the stupid rules of a bloodless national ethos." How cunning is the sauce, the shapeshifter...
...meet. With a Russian Orthodox bishop in attendance to offer his blessings and perhaps exorcise the ghosts of the past, Chernomyrdin hastily occupied a renovated office suite last week at the White House, the former parliament building damaged last October when armed forces loyal to Yeltsin put down a revolt of hard-line deputies. The move was intended to forestall any claims on the space by the new Federal Assembly, whose members are unhappy over a Kremlin proposal to house the two chambers in separate buildings until a new complex can be built on an abandoned sports field just behind...
There is already talk of a genetic backlash, a revolt against the notion that we are our genes, or, as one critic put it, that our Genes R Us. John Maddox, editor of the journal Nature, warns that the greatest pitfall of the genome project may be what he calls the "inescapable triumphalism" that accompanies a rush of discoveries, leaving the impression that geneticists know a lot more than they do. Studies claiming to have found genes for alcoholism, for instance, have not held up under scrutiny, but many people still assume such complex behaviors may be predetermined by heredity...