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Suwelo believes. Short of hustling Miss Lissie out the door, that is probably his only option. For her voluminous story, to which a growing chorus of other voices gradually contributes, is an extended myth that must be taken on faith or not at all. Parts of it are enchantingly beautiful. She remembers primeval Africa as the Edenic cradle of life, when women and men lived separately and thus at peace and when lions killed only to put ailing fellow creatures out of their misery. But then the men decided to force their way into residence at the women's encampments...
...government of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl is most vulnerable to these pressures. To stave off graver trouble for Kohl, who faces an uphill battle for re-election in December 1990, the U.S. and Britain reluctantly agreed to put off until 1991 any decision about the future of the short-range (80 miles) Lance nuclear missile. Public opinion in West Germany solidly opposes replacing the U.S.-made Lance with a newer missile capable of hitting targets 280 miles away. "It's doubtful the Kohl government could survive next year's elections if it is associated with a decision to deploy...
...postponement of a deployment decision only serves to highlight what is increasingly apparent: Lance is a symbol of a much broader trend toward the complete denuclearization of NATO. Gorbachev set the stage for debating this several weeks ago, when he proposed opening talks on reducing the remaining short-range nuclear arsenals in Europe. The U.S. adamantly opposes the timing, arguing that conventional arms talks, which have just begun, must be wrapped up first. But the West German government is under enormous pressure to persuade the Americans to agree to start bargaining immediately for "equal but lower" levels of short-range...
...Wade. Sometimes those seem like the most contentious words in American law. Short and unassuming though they are, they connote other, more explosive terms: abortion and murder, morality and privacy, the right to life and the right to choose. Attached to those words are some of the most intractable passions in American life. Writing about medical advances that improve the chances for a fetus to survive outside the womb, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor once declared that the 1973 decision was "on a collision course with itself." Sixteen years after Roe obliged all 50 states to legalize...
...enthusiasts gathered for their big show, the computer-graphics experts had special reason to celebrate. Late last month two of their own, John Lasseter and William Reeves of Pixar, a computer manufacturer in San Rafael, Calif., won the first Academy Award given for a totally computer-generated film -- a short subject called Tin Toy that starred a rambunctious baby and a windup music man. Says Jaron Lanier, founder of VPL Research, a small Redwood City, Calif., company that makes the equipment used to help people enter a computer-generated world: "This is the year that this stuff is finally starting...