Word: sonly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...loss of which he regards as a personal and national indignity. Outpowered militarily, Assad knows negotiations are his best option. The Syrian leader, 68, suffers multiple ailments, which are thought to include diabetes and heart disease. He is eager to prepare the succession of his son Bashar, 34, a mild-mannered, British-trained ophthalmologist who emerged as heir apparent only after his elder brother Basil died in a 1994 car crash. "Assad has more a sense of urgency now because he would like to strike the deal himself," says Bassma Kodmani-Darwish, an analyst at the Ford Foundation in Cairo...
...computers for 100 min. a day, five days a week for four to eight weeks--because it takes sharply focused attention to rewire a brain. Last fall, Scientific Learning rolled out Fast ForWord II for children who can use additional training. (Parental disclosure: this writer's 12-year-old son Billy made welcome strides in both programs...
That is how he appears in the opening pages of True at First Light, which his second son Patrick, in the introduction, says he whittled down from a 200,000-word manuscript to a book roughly half as long. Even after such radical surgery, the thing seems interminable...
...Showa era with the Emperor's death, and I was highly honored to have been charged with the profound responsibility as government spokesman of announcing the name of the new era of imperial rule, Heisei, which means "Achieving Peace." Thus the legacy of Emperor Showa lives on in his son, Emperor Akihito. We must all make the utmost effort to live up to the name of this era and devote ourselves to ensuring that the approaching new century is truly one of global peace and prosperity...
EXTRA BONUS Steven Spielberg's son is enrolled and, for the first time, a girl...