The World and I back issues from August 1999:
The Armored Pig.(armadillos)
Aug 01, 1999; ... Relying on their strong suit of armor and their ability to eat almost anything, stay out of sight, and colonize waste habitats, armadillos have survived for 55 million years. As the sun disappears behind the horizon and numerous creatures settle in for the night, a quiet mammal ...
A new Israeli government.(from New York Times, May 18, 1999)(Reprint)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Israel selects a new leader UNITED STATES--The decisive election victory of Ehud Barak, and the rejection of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after three years in office, is a political earthquake in Israel and throughout the Middle East. Now Mr. Barak, one of the most ...
Arafat reelected.(from Wall Street Journal, May 20, 1999)(Reprint)
Aug 01, 1999 ... UNITED STATES--That's a headline you won't see anytime soon. In the parlance of international affairs, Yasser Arafat is a "strongman," someone who rules his roost with cunning, guns and unfastidious colleagues who do what needs doing. Ehud Barak, Israel's new Prime Minister, is ...
The challenge for Barak.(from Washington Times, May 18, 1999)(Reprint)
Aug 01, 1999 ... UNITED STATES--Labor Party voters would do well to keep the election celebration champagne bottles and pull them out again four years from now. Labor Party leader Ehud Barak won the prime minister seat [May 17] on a platform of promises for economic reform and for reviving the stalled ...
Ehud Barak's dilemma.(from Baltimore Sun, May 23, 1999)(Reprint)
Aug 01, 1999 ... UNITED STATES--The Israeli elections produced a strong personal mandate for Ehud Barak as prime minister--and a stinging rejection of the policies and machinations of Benjamin Netanyahu--but they settled none of the divisions in Israeli society and may even have exacerbated a few. ... ...
Taxing days for Jewish settlements.(from Hatzofe, June 2, 1999, Israel)(Reprint)
Aug 01, 1999 ... ISRAEL--Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria have in recent days been at the center of Jewish and Arab activities. They have been at the center of government-forming negotiations, while the Palestinians have been preparing a "Day of Anger" to stage their protest riots against the ...
Tough days ahead for Barak.(from Maariv, June 1, 1999, Israel)(Reprint)
Aug 01, 1999 ... ISRAEL--Before very long, in fact in the very near future, Ehud Barak is going to have to stop smiling and begin giving serious thought to whether he really wants to be "the prime minister of all the people," including those who would kill the peace process by the expansion of West Bank ...
The U.S. comes first.(from Haaretz, May 20, 1999, Israel)(Reprint)
Aug 01, 1999 ... ISRAEL--The first thing that Ehud Barak must coentrate on is improving relations with the United States. Israel cannot plan the next steps with the Palestinians and with Syria and Lebanon ...
Barak's agenda.(from Jerusalem Post, May 20, 1999)(Reprint)
Aug 01, 1999 ... ISRAEL--The election results have raised Arab expectations, probably to a level beyond what the new government can accommodate. If Ehud Barak decides that the peace process will be the focus of his activity in coming months, he will have to set up his cabinet in a ...
Arafat the big winner.(from Yediot, May 19, 1999, Israel)(Israeli elections)(Reprint)
Aug 01, 1999 ... ISRAEL--The big winner in the Israeli elections is Yasser Arafat. By having Barak substitute [for] Netanyahu, yet another barrier has been removed from the Arab terror leader's plan to eliminate the Jewish state. Netanyahu was only partly successful in his attempt ...
What peace does the general want?(from Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 20, 1999, West Bank)(Reprint)
Aug 01, 1999 ... WEST BANK--We weren't really interested in Barak's win as much as we were in Netanyahu's fall. But, as we try to separate the harsh memories from the current reality and try to convince ourselves that Commander General Barak can indeed be a man of peace, we can't seem to overlook the bleak ...
Barak's message.(from Al-Quds, May 20, 1999, West Bank)(Reprint)
Aug 01, 1999 ... WEST BANK--Whether Mr. Barak's post-election statements were directed to his voters or to Palestinians, Arabs and the international arena do not find them reassuring, especially the views relating to the maintaining of settlements and ignoring the claims on Arab Jerusalem. ...
Barak between reality and expectation.(from Al-Ayyam, May 18, 1999, West Bank)(Reprint)
Aug 01, 1999 ... WEST BANK--The principles of Israel will not change after Barak's victory. Barak concentrated on his military profile and accomplishments on the security level, which were both achieved at the expense of the Arabs. Barak and his government are maybe more ...
Reading the elections.(from Al-Ahram, May, 19, 1999, Egypt)(Reprint)
Aug 01, 1999 ... EGYPT--It is premature to know where Barak is heading, but one can draw some fast conclusions from the Israeli elections. Barak's ability to solve the complicated issues ...
Blind theories.(from Al-Ray, May 20, 1999, Jordan)(Israeli elections)(Reprint)
Aug 01, 1999 ... JORDAN--Those who fail to see that genuine change is taking place in the Israeli community are blind. Negotiations with Barak will be more difficult than negotiations with Netanyahu. But it is wrong to think that both Barak and Netanyahu are two sides of the same coin. Had they been so, ...
Prospects following Barak's victory.(from Ash-Sharq, May 19, 1999, Lebanon)(Reprint)
Aug 01, 1999 ... LEBANON--It is premature to judge whether the peace process will be activated. We should wait for the formulation of the Israeli government. There are some disappointing signs. Barak announced that he will not accept ...
U.S. and the peace process.(from As-Safir, May 19, 1999, Lebanon)(Reprint)
Aug 01, 1999 ... LEBANON--Looking at American political rhetoric, we note the following: (1) The Americans insist on implementing Wye River "as is," because this is related to President Clinton's personal reputation. (2) The Americans are convinced that a unilateral Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon is ...
What Barak must do.(from Al-Baath, May 20, 1999, Syria)(Israeli elections)(Reprint)
Aug 01, 1999 ... SYRIA--If Barak is serious and willing to respond to the will of the Israeli electorates who voted for peace with action, then the Arabs are willing and prepared for a just and comprehensive peace. If Barak really ...
No time for Arabs to rejoice.(from Akhbar Al-Khalij, May 18, 1999, Bahrain)(Israeli elections)(Reprint)
Aug 01, 1999 ... BAHRAIN--The Arab capitals should postpone rejoicing and holding festivals celebrating Barak's victory. We want the Arabs to remember that Barak is not a graduate of a peace school and was not raised in a peace-loving party. Barak was ...
No reason for optimism.(from Al-Madina, May 20, 1999, Saudi Arabia)(Israeli elections)(Reprint)
Aug 01, 1999 ... SAUDI ARABIA--Barak has a historical opportunity before him to put the peace train back on track. This is especially true since Israeli voters elected him because of his peace slogans. Therefore, Barak should correct Netanyahu's ...
Two faces of the same coin.(1999 Israeli election)
Aug 01, 1999 ... KUWAIT--Netanyahu lost and Barak won, but I don't see any reason for the optimism expressed by many Arab observers. Both are two faces of the same coin. The Israeli mentality, no matter what direction it takes, does not have a place for a peace that is sought by the Arabs. It is ...
Barak victory not enough.(Ehud Barak)
Aug 01, 1999 ... UNITED ARAB EMIRATES--The victory of Barak is not enough to boost the deadlocked peace process. Why? Because that Israeli leader looks at the peace process and the Madrid principles from an Israeli point of view. He does not look at Jerusalem as an occupied territory. He also does not ...
No difference between labor and likud.(political parties)
Aug 01, 1999 ... REPUBLIC OF YEMEN--The statements delivered by the newly elected Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak, about Jerusalem, and his lack of commitment to return to the June 1967 borders, disappointed Palestinian ...
Barak's victory reinforces peace process.(Ehud Barak)
Aug 01, 1999 ... ALGERIA--Barak's election is good news for those Arab governments that are under pressure from Islamist movements. They may now be more optimistic about the future. It is also good news for Washington, which can ...
The peace issue, not elections.
Aug 01, 1999 ... MOROCCO--More than one part of the world, especially the United States, Europe and the Middle East, has paid more attention to the Israeli elections than any other elections in the world. The issue of peace in Palestine is the sole reason behind that interest. The Middle East is ...
The 'new nato' creates instability in europe.
Aug 01, 1999; ... The decision taken by NATO leaders in 1997 to invite Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic to join the alliance was a watershed event. For the first time, NATO undertook security responsibilities in central and eastern Europe. Although the alliance did not embark on a second round of ...
Military discipline, political pressure, and the post--cold war world.
Aug 01, 1999; ... No one wants to contemplate what would happen if America were to send its soldiers into a situation that they were unprepared to meet. We have done that more than once in our history. We do not care to do it again. Yet, we may be risking exactly that--not just through the usual ...
Darwin's Origin Transforms Culture.(Critical Essay)
Aug 01, 1999; ... In formulating his theory of evolution, Charles Darwin incorporated ideas that have influenced practically every cultural domain, including science, religion, philosophy, societal values, and literature. Darwin. Darwinize. Darwinian. Darwinism. ... A string of variations ...
Late-Night Gurus.(television talk-show hosts)
Aug 01, 1999; ... Are Leno, Letterman, and Company moral barometers of our changing times, or merely obscene funnymen, milking tasteless jokes about public figures for all they're worth. "The Emperor has no clothes!" cried the little boy in the Hans Christian Andersen story. Today that cry is ...
Nmd: The Folly of 'Star Wars II'.(national missile defense)
Aug 01, 1999; ... In May the U.S. House of Representatives followed the lead of its Senate colleagues and passed the National Missile Defense Act of 1999. Known as the Cochran bill after its sponsor, Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Mississippi), this legislation states that it is the policy of the United States to ...
Hitchcock and the Censors.(Alfred Hitchcock)
Aug 01, 1999; ... Through collaboration and clashes with Hollywood's Production Code censors, Alfred Hitchcock--born a hundred years ago--developed the art of suggestion into powerful cinema. In the 1930s, in a drab, unmarked building in the West End of London, the British Board of Film Censors ...
Stolen Lives.(Review)
Aug 01, 1999; ... While acknowledging shock, Western publics tend to ignore the plights of slaves for fear of offending another culture or religion. Book Info:DISPOSABLE PEOPLE New Slavery in the Global Economy Kevin Bales Publisher:Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999 298 pp., $24.95 ...
NATO EXPANSION: A DISASTER IN THE MAKING.
Aug 01, 1999 ... In 1983 the Professors World Peace Academy funded a project I had proposed: "The Fall of the Soviet Empire." The project was derided by most academics as propagandistic or delusional. Nonetheless we held a big international conference on the subject in Geneva in 1985. Although ...
DARWIN, COMPLEXITY, AND THE PROBLEM OF DESIGN.(Charles Darwin)(Critical Essay)
Aug 01, 1999 ... In his splendid article, "DarwinOs Origin Transforms Culture," Peter Graham refers to studies by biochemist Michael Behe showing that an individual cell is so complex and arranged so interdependently that it never could have arisen from a process of random or chance mutation. There is, in ...
Between Three Mountains.(Kashgar, China)
Aug 01, 1999; ... The modern chinese city of kashgar is a faceless, noisy conglomerate of municipal buildings, ugly hotels, and apartment blocks, interspersed with remnants of an ancient city conquered and reconquered through the ages. On the way to Kashgar, at the border with Kyrgyzstan, the ...
Kosova: Is It a Just War?
Aug 01, 1999; ... A Moral Imperative Fifty-five years ago President Franklin Delano Roosevelt prayed for the American and Allied troops storming the beaches of Normandy. His D-day invocation evoked the just cause for which our soldiers were fighting. He said: "They fight not for the lust of ...
The Tissue Master Delivers.(bioengineering)
Aug 01, 1999; ... By combining the interaction of synthetic materials with pharmaceuticals and living cells, chemical engineer Robert Langer has invented a multitude of techniques and devices for treating conditions ranging from diabetes to cancer. If Robert Langer weren't one of the nation's top ...
Lights, Cameras--Cut!(media crime coverage)
Aug 01, 1999; ... "The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose." So observed an English court in 1604. With this ancient observation as a springboard, the Supreme Court held that because the Fourth Amendment embodies ...
All the High Buildings.(Monte Carlo, Monaco)
Aug 01, 1999; ... Monte Carlo Is Not Like Other Cities The German couple cross Europe intent on tasting the charm of Monte Carlo during their vacation. Their imaginations are filled with visions of gleaming sports cars and fragrant flowers tumbling over stucco walls, behind which play the super ...
NATO EXPANSION, RUSSIAN DEMISE.
Aug 01, 1999 ... By the time this issue goes to print, chances are the bombing in Yugoslavia will be over. NATO leaders are currently meeting with Serbian military commanders to work out the technical details of "when and how" their troops will withdraw from Kosovo. Everyone's tired of the war, delays in ...
Melville's Masquerade.(Herman Melville)(Critical Essay)
Aug 01, 1999; ... This historical novel is an imaginative study and tribute to one of AmericaOs greatest authors, as well as an indictment of manOs inhumanity to man. The most significant irony in the history of any literature may well be the enormous gap between real merit and contemporary ...
The Lights Dim on U.S. Nuclear Power.
Aug 01, 1999; ... Driving north from California's Silicon Valley on Highway 680, past oak trees and over rolling green hills, the afternoon sun reflects from the distant silver dome of the Vallecitos nuclear reactor. That reactor, operated in the early 1960s and now retired, was one of the ...
Korea's Best-Kept Secret.(South Korea)
Aug 01, 1999; ... Seoul's Ch'angdokkung Palace The only Korean palace remaining virtually intact, Ch'angdok, built in 1394 and just now being appreciated by the West, recalls the grandeur and scope of the Choson dynasty. New visitors to Seoul are amazed by not only the size of this ...
Familiar Exotic.(Palau)
Aug 01, 1999; ... Palau's Many Islands Are One Nation In ancient times, Palau was a single large island. Then one day, an unusual baby was born. At first Uab was like any other child, growing larger with each passing moon. But Uab kept growing. He grew at such an alarming rate, he soon became too ...
Familiar Exotic.(Gay beauty contest)
Aug 01, 1999; ... Gay Night Out Saturday night in Koror felt like V-J day. All of Palau's inhabitants seemed to be ready to party. The parking lot of the Paradise Club was overflowing and jubilant banners proclaimed that a beauty queen would be chosen that night. As we squeezed ...
Memory of a Free Festival.
Aug 01, 1999; ... Woodstock Thirty Years Later I arrived in San Francisco at the end of the summer of love in 1967 and stayed for six months in Haight-Ashbury. We would gather in Golden Gate Park for free concerts by the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. It was there that I bought my first ...
A Rainbow of Rices.
Aug 01, 1999; ... Uncle ben's and basmati move over. ordinary rice is out, and trendy but ancient rice varieties are on the increase in american kitchens. Potatoes were the staple starch component of my midwestern childhood diet. When encountered in the occasional TV dinner, rice was not ...
How the Midwest Has Won.
Aug 01, 1999; ... Automakers and other manufacturers have adopted new technologies and improved product quality to a remarkable degree. If, as a "thought experiment," we were to bring forward to today an observer from a typical midwestern town of 1984, he would likely comment on the absence of ...
Four Keys to Success.(economic development)
Aug 01, 1999; ... To maintain its success of the 1990s, the revived Rust Belt needs to keep achieving and export its lessons. During the 1970s, the midwestern states were dubbed the Rust Belt, partly due to the regional drop in employment in heavy-duty manufacturing. At that time, the U.S ....
Four Keys to Success.(Wisconsin economy)
Aug 01, 1999; ... The Wisconsin Miracle Is your state economy growing as fast as it could be? And is your state government providing the encouragement needed to help foster this growth? If you want to know more, read on. Over the past decade, several state economies have grown faster ...
Sao Paulo: Urbanization Run Amok.(economic problems of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Aug 01, 1999; ... America could learn much from the myriad difficulties now plaguing Sao Paulo, Brazil. With 21.4 million residents expected by the end of the year, the world's second- largest city (Mexico City is the largest) is caught up in a spiraling escalation of problems that come when the ...
Alone Together.(Review)
Aug 01, 1999; ... Annie Dillard, archaeologist of the spirit, searches for the edge of God. Book Info:FOR THE TIME BEING Annie Dillard Publisher:New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999 192 pp., $22.00 For those inspired to personal reassessment and resolve on the first day of each ...
Chinagate: Network Blind Spot?(television network news underreports political stories)
Aug 01, 1999; ... For years, the networks doggedly pursued foreign-policy scandals of previous administrations from Iran-Contra to Iraqgate. But in the wake of a scandal- fatigued public (and perhaps press), the passion for breaking stories seems to have deadened. While story after story in the ...
The Return of the Rust Belt.(change in manufacturing industry in Midwestern US)(Editorial)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Back in the seventies, most experts gave up on the Rust Belt--the traditional center of American heavy industry located in the Midwest. They considered the region's double-digit unemployment rate, the big population losses, and the flat growth and concluded that someone ought to send for ...
Soaring With the Sun.(progress of solar powered flight)
Aug 01, 1999; ... Sustained by the vision of a plane that can fly forever, a small band of pioneers has laid the foundation for solar-powered flying wings that may serve as communications relay stations and environmental monitoring platforms. According to legend, the sun fatally ended humanity's ...
Transistor's Kid Brother.(silicon solar cells)
Aug 01, 1999 ... Two very different energy-harnessing technologies, the silicon solar cell and the steam engine, may someday be ranked as having equal significance. Today the powerful legacy of James Watt's steam engine, a machine that converted the heat of burning wood or coal into the ...
Where the River Turns.(description of life in Thailand)
Aug 01, 1999; ... Rapid Currents of Change in Bangkok The rail line leads abruptly into a canyon of corrugated iron, a swamp of poverty. A flat landscape of metal roofs almost scrapes the side of the railway carriage. Only inches from my window the teeming world beneath the roofs opens up. There ...
Where the River Turns.(Thailand's railways)
Aug 01, 1999; ... The Great Railway Thai character is immediately evident, even from the open-sided observation car at the rear of the E&O Express. In Malaysia, the predominantly Muslim locals studiously ignored or gazed blankly at the tourists leaning from the sides of the car. But once the line ...
Dean of the U.S. Senate.(biography of Senator Strom Thurmond)(Interview)
Aug 01, 1999 ... ###Robert R. Selle As a 40-year-old circuit judge in rural South Carolina in late 1941, Strom Thurmond was exempt from military service. But the first day war was declared on Germany, Thurmond threw down his gavel and volunteered to pick up a rifle. "The war wasn't ...
Japanese Law and Trade Relations.
Aug 01, 1999 ... To the Editor: Ever since Matthew Galbraith Perry signed a treaty with the Tokugawa Shogunate on March 31, 1854, ending the self-imposed isolation of Japan, the trade relationship between Japan and the United States has been adversarial. [On the state of Japan's economy and ...
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Myth and Reality.(Critical Essay)
Aug 01, 1999; ... A profile of Laura Ingalls Wilder No American children's book author has attained greater popularity or demonstrated longer staying power than Laura Ingalls Wilder. Since the publication of her first novel, Little House in the Big Woods, in 1932, her books have sold millions of ...