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America, are you still out there? That's the vague, selfish fear we're reluctant to admit out of respect for others' more piercing ones: someday, without warning, we'll hear a silence deeper than the silence we're accustomed to, and we'll know something awful has happened, beyond our reach. --By Walter Kirn
...experiments had suggested about a basic characteristic of the universe: the geometry of space-time, in the Einsteinian sense, is flat. That's consistent with a theory called inflation, which posits that the cosmos underwent a period of turbocharged expansion before it was a second old. "I have to admit," says Bahcall, "that I was skeptical of the picture theorists had put together. Inflation, dark matter, dark energy--it's all pretty implausible. But this implausible, crazy universe has now been confirmed with exquisite detail...
...Admit it: no matter how much you enjoyed the Ozzie Osbourne ad for Pepsi Twist during the Super Bowl, it didn't make you switch soft drinks. That wasn't always the case. Until about 20 years ago, savvy ads in mass media were powerful opinion shapers, but the proliferation of media outlets like cable networks and the Internet has blunted their impact. Edward Keller and Jonathan Berry, authors of The Influentials, think they have found a solution. Using proprietary data from their employer, research firm RoperASW, they argue that the trick is to identify the 1 American...
...exiled Zimbabweans are using again. Now the regime is fighting back, recruiting popular singers to make propaganda albums. But the artists who sign on "are hated [for] glorifying a corrupt, brutal system," says a Harare music critic. Thompson Tsodzo, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Education, Sport and Culture, admits the strategies are futile. "The government can't control music," he says. Artists like Mapfumo will be heard - on tapes copied until they're frayed, on short-wave radio, in bars and beerhalls. "Ministers had better listen," says Tsodzo. "Musicians are voicing what the people are saying." Mapfumo's latest...
...wrote about how he snared Eichmann. Much feared by his enemies, Harel unmasked Israel Beer, a Soviet mole who had penetrated Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's inner circle, and once made a man confess by simply saying: "I know you're a Russian spy. You might as well admit...