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...Riyadh, the Saudi Arabian capital, Jordanian Prime Minister Zaid al Rifa'i and his Syrian counterpart, Abdel-Rauf al Kasm, apparently made strides in healing the long-standing rift between their countries. The two men met at the behest of Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. Syria severed diplomatic relations with Jordan in 1980, and the situation became even more strained after Jordan's Hussein put together his Feb. 11 agreement with P.L.O. Leader Arafat to reach a negotiated Middle East settlement with Israel. The signs of rapprochement between Hussein and Syrian President Hafez Assad raised the long-term possibility...
...some of the apparent similarities between earth and Mars are what makes the Red Planet so appealing a place to visit. A study of Mars could reveal critical insights about the meteorology and seismology of the earth; the strata that should be visible in the walls of the great rift valley would reveal the planet's geological history, exposed and waiting to be read. And the question that the Viking landers could not answer might be resolved: If the planet is so like our own, did life ever evolve there? Whether it did or not, Carl Sagan sees an opportunity...
...tallest volcano is three times as high as Mount Everest, and its great rift valley plunges to over four times the depth of the Grand Canyon. Global dust storms with winds up to 300 m.p.h. sometimes obscure its arid surface, which is pocked with vast gulches and deltas apparently left by ancient rivers. And maybe, just maybe, its stones bear fossils of primitive creatures that vanished billions of years ago with the waters that gave them life...
...most at ease around other golfers, though he isn't as relaxed around Woods. "I don't know," Singh says about the rift question. "He's a good guy. It's just that the pressure, the situation of him being as good as he is and the demands on his time, it's very hard to get close to a person like that." Singh didn't like Woods' comments about the Sorenstam affair--"I wish Vijay hadn't said that"--or rumors that Woods suspected him of using an illegal driver. Woods fumed when Singh's caddie wore...
These factors combined have spurred concern among seniors that the unusual rift over the traditional graduation gift to Harvard may prove divisive...