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...experiment, participants wore an apparatus that placed the mouth of a tube close to one eye. They heard a beep lasting for a half-second, during which the tube blew a puff of oxygen into the eye, making them blink...
...Army, the Israeli-sponsored 2,500-man militia that rules Israel's self-proclaimed security zone. Most of the prisoners are Lebanese Shi'ites. Many are members of Hizballah, caught while attempting to attack SLA positions and patrols or Israeli border settlements. Some were arrested by the SLA security apparatus for interrogation. None have ever been charged or tried. Some will be released if their interrogators decide they are innocent. But for most, the only chance to get out will come when someone makes a deal to swap them for Israeli and SLA soldiers -- and probably some of the Western...
Whatever his foibles, Yeltsin seems dedicated to all that is most welcome (if not most promising) in perestroika. Therefore he is a natural ally for Gorbachev. Even the disagreements between them constitute a tactical opportunity for Gorbachev. In dealing with his conservative constituencies in the military and the party apparatus, he can point to Yeltsin over his left shoulder and say, Do business with me or you may end up with that guy instead...
...preserve the trust of the people," said Moscow Deputy Viktor Shinkaretsky. "This buys us some time." Others blamed Gorbachev for bungling the campaign by attacking Yeltsin so much. "We're responsible to the voters, not to Gorbachev," said Vladimir Ispravnikov, a Deputy from Omsk. "When the party apparatus leans on Yeltsin, it only helps...
...whole apparatus is very much like a bong, which led to a lot of interrogations when Mark used to sit crosslegged in the Winthrop courtyard puffing away, water gurgling through the pipes, hose coiled around his knees. The caterpillar in last fall's Mainstage production of Alice in Wonderland, pillowed like a pasha on his guru's mushroom, was smoking Mark's sheesha...