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...story. Early in her stay Marks had panicked at the sight of a doctor--the same one, she concluded, who had dissected McDermott--and screamed uncontrollably. She was removed to an insane asylum--"mad as a snake," it was said--and subjected to a regime of cold baths and strait waistcoats. She endured this and was returned to the prison. Staying sane here, she says to herself, is like hanging over the edge of a bridge: you aren't moving anywhere, but it takes all your energy. A young doctor visits, a specialist in mental illness summoned by a group...
...hard to understand his frustration. Paleoanthropologists have only a general idea of how humans first came to the Americas. It happened, most believe, around 12,000 years ago, when Asians began crossing a strip of land that connected present-day Siberia and Alaska, across what is now the Bering Strait. Modern Asians and Native Americans have enough genetic and physical similarities to make a convincing case for the link. But the details of the migration, including how many waves there were, when they happened and the routes by which wanderers subsequently moved east and south over the millennia, are still...
...President Clinton and President Kim Young-sam of South Korea, though China's first, non-committal comments were promising. TIME's Jaime FlorCruz reports from Beijing that today's acceptance is another sign of the warming in Sino-American relations since the tense standoff this March in the Taiwan Strait during Taiwan's first democratic presidential election. The acceptance also indicates China's interest in playing a positive role in global diplomacy. "It is an issue of stature for China," FlorCruz says. "It is a way of showing its importance in the global diplomatic community, and a way of saying...
...STRAIT IS THE GATE, AND NARROW...
...Taiwan will have its election this Saturday; Lee will win and perhaps declare his commitment to reunification more explicitly, thereby allowing China to back off. Even Beijing agrees that reunification will not take place until some time in the future, when the societies on the two shores of the strait are more closely synchronized. The immediate crisis will pass, and the two sides will not have irreparably antagonized each other. But how will they fare at resolving the next conflict when it comes along, as it surely will? Comprehensive engagement may still be the right path, but it would yield...