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...despite the future-shock flourishes, most of Zooropa flies beneath the radar, mapping a personal terrain of reflection and emotional catharsis. The sensory overload of superstardom is chillingly conveyed in Numb as the Edge's monotonic vocal is underscored by a lacerating guitar lick. Other songs are suffused with a sense of fleeting time. In Some Days Are Better than Others, Bono observes, "Some days take less but most days take more/ Some days slip through your fingers and onto the floor." And in the hymnlike Dirty Day, he seems to glimpse his own mortality as he sings, "These days...
...launched a full-scale internal investigation, condemning a conversation of any substance between Primakov, a longtime Kremlin Middle East expert, and Woolsey, a specialist on nuclear and conventional arms control, as treasonous. During most of their careers, the U.S. and the Soviet Union struggled for every square foot of terrain anywhere on earth that one might win from the other. With nuclear war in the balance, Moscow and Washington focused most of their spies' efforts, and spent most of their intelligence budgets, on each other...
Much of the puzzling that has greeted Clinton's public soul-searching surrounds her language, most notably the phrase "the politics of meaning," borrowed from Michael Lerner, editor of the Jewish liberal bimonthly Tikkun. But her fascination with the terrain is all her own. She has been groping for an understanding of "what it means to be a human being in the 20th century" ever since she was 14 and began attending the youth sessions of the Rev. Donald G. Jones in Park Ridge, Illinois. He cemented her sense as a Methodist of an obligation to help the less fortunate...
...shows, judges evaluate the equestrians according to the ease and poise with which participants control their horses while trotting, walking and cantering on flat terrain or jumping over fences. The team consists of beginner, novice, intermediate, and open candidates. Some members have been riding for many years, while others have never been on, or even seen a real horse...
...some logistical problems. If humans got to South America by 13,000 years ago, they would have had to cross the Bering land bridge many thousands of years earlier. That would have been no problem, but heading south from there would have been tough: ice sheets -- or the inhospitable terrain they left behind -- cut off virtually all access to the bulk of North America from Alaska between 20,000 and 14,000 years ago. Guidon's rather controversial answer: maybe the immigrants came over to South America in boats directly from Asia...