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...next day we hit the swamps that have long deterred those curious about the Ndoki. We pick our way through the quicksand-like muck by feeling with our toes and walking sticks for a series of thin logs Japanese researchers have previously laid down. I slip once and fall up to my chest in mud before grabbing a root. Sobered by the slip, I ask Fay how deep the mud is. "Who knows?" he says, shrugging...
...reality and by the grief of having lost so much time to mental illness. To help patients with this "Rip Van Winkle syndrome," the Case Western group has learned that each small step forward with clozapine must be carefully nurtured with psychological counseling. Without it, the awakened patients can slip back into mental confusion, and the devilish inner voices may begin harping again...
...moderate who had chafed under Ronald Reagan's conservative shackles. Bush, who likes to lower expectations and then surprise everyone by beating the depressed odds, again wants to wait until the Republican Convention in August to redefine himself. Bush expected that just as in 1988, he would slip behind in polls and then, when pundits had nearly written him off, he would come back with a boffo convention speech and a blitzkrieg campaign. In the meantime, he would direct his army of surrogates to shoulder the unpleasant job of "defining" Ross Perot and Bill Clinton...
Burton knows that moviegoers, just like the Penguin, need their oversize playthings. So he and production designer Bo Welch provided toys for the kids. The new-model Batmobile can get ultraslim (fast!) and slip through the narrowest crevice. The Penguin's parasol becomes an Umbrella-Copter, spiriting him out of the trouble he loves to make. At the end he sends his commando squadron of penguins to destroy the city: tuxedoed birds wearing embossed shields, tiny helmets and missiles with candy-cane stripes ( it is Christmas) on their backs. Some of the penguins were real, some were robot puppets, some...
...lifeblood of both modern industry and mechanized armies, but it is far from certain that the tap will be turned off. Almost half of Serbia's fuel comes from Russia and China, which went along only reluctantly with the sanctions resolution. Some British diplomats are worried that oil may slip into Serbia from Romania, or from the Middle East via Greece, which has important trade routes through Serbia...