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...often with Carter's diplomacy, the long-term value of his intervention is in doubt. "It was negotiated on behalf of the guinea worm,'' gibed a State Department official. Indeed, the combatants had agreed to stop fighting largely to allow aid workers to treat a terrible parasitic disease. While the pause might open the door to negotiations, it seems unlikely to end Sudan's relentless slaughter. Carter did not address the fundamental conflict over the government's insistence on imposing Islamic law throughout the country...
...negotiated a truce with the help of former President Jimmy Carter. The two sides, which have been fighting a 12-year war in which more than 1 million people have died, agreed to a two-month cease-fire so that health workers could try to wipe out the parasitic Guinea worm, which causes debilitating disease...
...bloody, 12-year conflict between Sudan's Islamic government and rebel fighters.Carteradded, surprisingly, that public health concerns motivated the two sides to compromise: "The primary purpose of this agreement is to permit the leaders and citizens of Sudan and international agencies to carry out a major effort to eradicate guinea worm, prevent river blindness and immunize children against polio and other diseases," Carter said in a statement. The cash-strapped Muslim fundamentalist government spends more than $1 million a day on the war, which Christian and animist rebels have waged for economic reforms...
Part of the difficulty lies in the very definition of art. As anthropologist Margaret Conkey of the University of California, Berkeley puts it, "Many cultures don't really produce art, or even have any concept of it. They have spirits, kinship, group identity. If people from highland New Guinea looked at some of the Cro-Magnon cave art, they wouldn't see anything recognizable"-and not just because there are no woolly rhinos in New Guinea either. Today we can see almost anything as an aesthetic configuration and pull it into the eclectic orbit of late-Western "art experience"; museums...
...extra effort to ensure that Windows 95 goes to press with a minimum of bugs. Windows 95 contains a slew of new features-features that could easily translate into new headaches for users; Microsoft wants to avoid problems as much as possible by testing the product on willing guinea pigs...