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...time diversions, they get CNN, old Disney films and reruns of Newt Gingrich's 10-part course on revitalizing American civilization. "I want to make this place so unpleasant that they won't even think about doing something that could bring them back,'' says Arpaio. "I want them to suffer...
...four years Saddam Hussein has tried to hide his program to build weapons of mass destruction from the U.N. As long as Iraq is suspected of violating the U.N. weapons proscriptions, it will suffer from a crushing economic embargo, so every tactic is worth a try. When lies haven't worked, Saddam has revealed information, but only those facts that he knew U.N. inspectors would eventually discover on their own. Pentagon officials have come to call the ploy "cheat and retreat." Last week, in a major retreat, Baghdad confessed that it could have made the 1991 Persian Gulf...
...invitation somehow to turn the tide of technological history isn't to say technology doesn't have its dark side. We don't have to slavishly emulate, say, the Old Order Amish, who use no cars, electricity or alcohol; but we can profitably ask why it is that they suffer depression at less than one-fifth the rate of people in nearby Baltimore...
...even working mothers suffer depression more often than working men. And that shouldn't shock us either. To judge by hunter-gatherer societies, it is unnatural for a mother to get up each day, hand her child over to someone she barely knows and then head off for 10 hours of work--not as unnatural as staying home alone with a child, maybe, but still a likely source of guilt and anxiety. Finding a middle ground, enabling women to be workers and mothers, is one of the great social challenges...
...well as in the world outside. Senior editor Lee Aitken, who supervises TIME's O.J. coverage, compares the assignment to an overseas posting: "Jim and Elaine have immersed themselves so totally in the language, customs and history of the trial that I'm afraid they're going to suffer culture shock when the case ends...