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Last week reinforcements showed up when one of Pathfinder's robotic littermates--the Global Surveyor--arrived at the planet and swung into orbit. Though the landers are likely to wink out within months, the Surveyor orbiter will be studying the planet's surface and atmosphere for years to come. When it's done, NASA should have a better picture than it's ever had of Mars' chemistry, meteorology and perhaps even biology. "We want to understand the evolution of water in that atmosphere," says Arden Albee, Surveyor project scientist, "and whether life could possibly have existed on Mars...
What makes the situation even worse, however, are laws regulating alcohol. Ill-conceived and ill-enforced, these laws nod and wink at kids, encouraging them not only to drink (which wouldn't be so bad), but also encouraging them to drink recklessly...
Imagine the electric effect this would have on the Middle East--and the penetrating effect it would have on the Palestinians, moderate and radical alike. Such a stance would tell the Palestinian leadership that it finally had to choose. It could no longer wink at, make tacit alliances with, periodically unleash and generally use as blackmail the terrorists in their midst. It would finally have to choose between violence and peace...
...Administration. Republicans might wonder if such a man should hold all of them hostage to his whims and grudges. And if by some miracle Weld's use of force works, perhaps Albright will see that playing footsie with an ideological extortionist is a losing game--and rather than wink at Helms, take...
Stewart's appeal was the polar opposite of Cary Grant's suave cosmopolitanism or Clark Gable's rough self-assurance. Their glamour had an edge of danger to it. Theirs was a knowing wink. Stewart was safe because unknowing. He was the innocent at home...