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For decades, ever widening patches of the Amazon have been burned or cut down by developers building towns, ranchers raising cattle, companies going after timber and settlers trying to grow crops. Mendes was among those forest dwellers who realized that their way of life was slowly being snuffed out. So...
Shamir's determination to reduce the Palestinian presence in Israel -- while preserving Israel's de facto annexation of the territories -- is likely to backfire, widening the fissure along Israel's 1967 borders. "You can't just put Palestinians into refugee camps with no money and no work," says left- wing...
"Have you ever had a how-long-can-you-go-without-laughing test?" he asks Dorothy, continuing his routine examination. "No," she says, eyes widening. Stubs takes a large windup clock from his bag and lets it drop to the floor. Dorothy giggles. "You only lasted about four seconds," he...
An essential one, peripheral until communism crumbled in the East, is between "deepening" and "widening": Should Western Europe accelerate its drive toward closer economic and political integration among the 12 members of the European Community, or reach out beyond them to the impoverished, bewildered East European countries as they grope...
A favorite gambit of challengers is to call for new blood. In Oregon, for example, Democratic businessman Harry Lonsdale is trying to topple Senator Mark Hatfield by arguing that "most of our elected officials have been in Washington too long." This tactic dovetails with the widening effort to limit the...