Word: umbrellas
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...think it is a natural development," said Patrick D. Hanan, professor of Chinese literature. "The programs seem to overlap to a considerable degree and it makes sense for them to be grouped under an umbrella structure...
...Israel's crackdown on the intifadeh and refusal to begin the talks with Palestinian moderates urged by the U.S. The Israeli government has gone to great lengths to discourage and even suppress criticism from American Jews, especially by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, an umbrella group that represents 45 associations. But those efforts are becoming increasingly futile. Says Albert Vorspan, senior vice president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations: "There is a gap between what American Jewish leaders are saying publicly and privately. AIPAC and the Conference of Presidents are weakening in their power...
...Seth Carus of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy last week proposed that the U.S. extend some form of defense umbrella to cover Kuwait, whose territory Iraq claims, and Saudi Arabia, whose royal family is uneasy about Saddam's undisguised ambitions to dominate the region. Carus imagines the U.S. offering protection to these and other friendly countries within range of the Tammuz-1. The model might be the U.S. guarantee of South Korea's security against North Korea, which is also believed to be developing the Bomb...
...capitals. When her second son was born with a breathing disorder, Marylee Orr roused her Baton Rouge neighborhood and founded Mothers Against Air Pollution to stop a nearby incinerator from releasing toxic polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. Now the 38-year-old housewife heads the Louisiana Environmental Action Network, an umbrella for about 50 local environmental hell raisers, which lobbied successfully last year for the passage of the state's first air- quality law. In New Jersey the social-studies class of teacher Karl Stehle at West Milford High School scored its first environmental victory last year when it persuaded...
...wide, umbrella-shape screen that provides the real breakthrough in Solido. When the brain combines the left- and right-eye images in a conventional 3-D movie, it creates by a process known as stereopsis an artificial three-dimensional space that seems to jut out from the screen. As an object in that space approaches the viewer, it becomes larger and larger. If it gets big enough to reach the outer edges of the picture, however, it will appear to snap back to the plane of the screen, sending conflicting depth cues to the brain and destroying...