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WASHINGTON: Now that Operation Desert Fox has the sky falling on Baghdad, it won't feel like victory to ordinary Iraqis. But although President Clinton says this trip was necessary in order for UN inspectors to be able to do their jobs, this may mean the end of ground-based reconaissance. In the end, the decision to launch missile strikes on Iraq is another big win for Saddam Hussein. "The strikes are tantamount to an acknowledgment of defeat from the U.S.," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. UNSCOM's on-the-ground effort at arms control through inspection...
...piece of wood and they become magically sweet. A similar shortage at Meribah is solved when God directs Moses to strike a rock with his staff, and water pours forth. When food runs out in the wilderness, he promises to "rain down bread for you from the sky." Of all the biblical wonders, manna may admit to the most exact scientific explanation. (Its name is derived from the Israelites' reaction and may best be translated, "Whatta?") Scripture describes manna as "a fine and flaky substance, as fine as frost on the ground," which falls with the dew but melts when...
...fully awakened by the mournful and menacing wail of the howlers--large red monkeys that make a new-day announcement that they are in charge of all the forest's primates. The collective howl begins like a low siren in a fire station, rises to swallow the sky, then ebbs again. It makes you feel alone in the world, like the first human being ever to hear...
...18th century. We go by corjal to visit their descendants. Some are swimming; some are washing clothes in the river; some are staring at us. The faces of the children are a cross between innocence and gravity. On a far bank, a glorious ceiba rises to the sky. It is called the "house of the spirits" and is never cut down...
...goes. "What does wonk mean?" "How many novelists have been on your cover?" "Can you find a letter my son wrote to you in 1970?" "How much do actors make?" Oddly enough, no one has yet asked why the sky is blue...