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...auspicious time of 8:08 p.m. on Aug. 8, precisely one year before the Olympic Games are to open in Beijing, China held a celebration of the coming festivities in Tiananmen Square. The Gate of Heavenly Peace, where Mao Zedong's portrait still hangs, was bathed in red and gold light for the event, which featured intricately choreographed dance routines, multiple pop stars and, of course, fireworks...
...DORGAN, a Minnesota bridge engineer, on the state's strategy of making patchwork fixes on the Interstate 35W bridge, which collapsed Aug. 1. The bridge was rated "structurally deficient" 17 years...
...PRODIGAL SON, our last Graham cover, with his son Franklin, from 1996. Nancy and Michael's book, The Preacher and the Presidents, was conceived after they covered the 2004 election. It is the inspiration for a one-hour ABC documentary on Graham, hosted by Charles Gibson, airing Friday, Aug. 10. Gibbs, who wrote one of the covers on Graham's wall, says, "It seems that we've been trying to figure out the proper role of faith in politics for about 230 years, and we're still confused about where to draw the lines." Says Duffy: "We knew about Graham...
...fridge, so instead of getting a cola drink, they're getting a bottle of water." But the sheer speed with which bottled water is growing puts the industry under greater scrutiny. On the defensive, the International Bottled Water Association took out full-page newspaper ads on Aug. 3 touting the health benefits of drinking water...
...Japan's missions in support of U.S. operations abroad, however, are about to become a political football in Japan, with potentially damaging consequences for alliance. Ichiro Ozawa, the leader of opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), announced on Aug. 7 that he might try to end the Japanese military's participation in Iraq, and possibly in Afghanistan as well - the law that authorizes the Indian Ocean mission is up for renewal this fall. Nor was this just idle talk: Thanks to the DPJ landslide victory in elections for the Japanese Diet on July 29 that gave it control...