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...doubt that my fate and the fate of many others, perhaps of the entire world, had changed overnight. Something new and awesome had entered our lives, a product of the greatest of the sciences, of the discipline I revered." Before long, he found himself seconded to work with an ?lite group ordered to provide the Soviet Union with an identical weapon. Ever a patriot, he had no political doubts or moral qualms about the weapon he would help to design. Those would come later, as he calculated the number of deaths and genetic mutations that could be expected over generations...
...answer, I think, is that France is a fractured society. For many of its ?lite - the people who work for Vivendi and Airbus, have Harvard M.B.A.s and speak perfect English - globalization and a free-market economy offer glittering opportunities. But for others - and this is true elsewhere in Europe - the modern world is a threat. "Europe," says Bernard Guetta, a columnist at L'Express, "is frightened of the new century." Some French see national identity challenged by immigration and the rise of Islam; they witness governmental powers ineluctably shifting from Paris to the European Union. They fear that an American...
...boys leapt into the limelight last April with the launch of the show Meteor Garden on Taiwan's Chinese Television System. Women of all ages gushed over the romantic tale of a poor girl hooking up with a member of a rich brat-bully pack at an ?lite Taipei high school. (Mainland Chinese authorities were less enamored, saying it misled young viewers; Beijing recently banned the show after a few episodes aired on some local television stations.) The TV plot was adapted from a Japanese manga comic called Hana Yori Dango (Men Are Better Than Flowers). Chai, a variety-show...
Even before they arrive, the deployment of ?lite U.S. troops to Georgia is prompting some Chechen fighters to leave the Pankisi Gorge, Georgian officials claimed this week. However, just as swiftly, it has become evident that U.S. involvement has prompted another bout of shadowboxing between Georgia, Russia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Chechen rebels. So far, the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) remain unable to broker any kind of deal...
...veneration. When toting up personal possessions signifying ascendance in Hong Kong society, along with the Mercedes-Benz and the house on the Peak goes a Jockey Club membership card. Access to the club's posh dining rooms and exclusive turfside suites is an honor generally reserved for the ?lite, the wealthy and the connected...