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...intifadeh. But its sternness cannot be compared with the tales told by Kuwaiti refugees about looting, rape, torture, beheadings and other summary executions by Iraqi soldiers. That the outside world has to rely on refugees' stories to learn what is happening in Kuwait is itself significant. Reporters and photographers roam the Israeli-occupied territories, albeit with many restrictions imposed by the army, and report what they see and hear; they are not allowed into Kuwait...
...summer. Mathers will survive as he always has, with hard work, shrewd calculation. He and those like him may be the future of this vast and troubled land, which seems to be stumbling back in time toward a recast frontier where grass will be king, some buffalo may actually roam again, and man will be in the minority...
Welcome to White Oak Plantation, an outpost of paradise that slipped the Lord's notice when he expunged the rest of Eden. Gazelles and antelope play here. Tigers roam. In the streams black-necked swans bob through the absurdities of their mating ritual. Perhaps even Terpsichore darts about in * the shadows, inspiring a menagerie of humans who have come to the plantation to prepare an innovative evening of dance...
That tradition changed somewhat during the Vietnam War, with its confused purposes, enterprising reporters eager to roam in harm's way in search of the truth, and absence of military censorship. In fact, there are those who argue that Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America, that the nightly TV footage of body bags and burning villages turned hearts and minds against the war. Hardly surprising, then, if the Pentagon should try to avoid the pattern of Vietnam by keeping the press on a short leash whenever American troops go into action...
Today hundreds of people are exploring that question. At Bellcore, the research affiliate of the Bell telephone companies, David Ackley makes little creatures with humanoid faces that roam around a computer-simulated world consuming resources, evading predators and multiplying like rabbits. At UCLA David Jefferson and Robert Collins have created colonies of randomly generated "ants" that over many generations evolve the ability to navigate electronic mazes and search for symbols representing food...