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...little background is in order. When not wearing a flightsuit, I draw information graphics for TIME. In April, I created an illustration that showed how a B-1 dropped four satellite-guided bombs in Baghdad's Mansur District that targeted Saddam Hussein and at least one of his sons. The graphic prompted an e-mail from Kevin Cox, a computer technician who works on the B1s at Ellsworth Air Force Base near Rapid City, S.D., The crew enjoyed the graphic and asked for some reprints. I said yes. Then I asked Kevin if he could arrange for me to hitch...
...avoid both extremes of cracking down or genuinely leaving Hong Kong alone. The most probable course might be an appeal to nationalism by blaming pernicious foreign influences for the current turmoil. At a meeting on July 9, according to my source, five top leaders agreed that the "deep background" to the Hong Kong events was interference from the U.S. Such an analysis differs only in degree, not in essence, from that which claimed the 1989 Tiananmen Square rallies were orchestrated by "a tiny minority" of "counterrevolutionaries"?with foreign backing, of course. None of the main actors?not the Tung government...
...actually robots that react to light and body heat by bobbing, swaying, spinning and changing color. Put your hand in front of one, and its petals contract into a bud and turn bright green or red. Stand near another, and notice how the soft, ambient music in the background changes pitch. Now showing at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City, through January 2004, Cyberflora Installation was created by Breazeal, a professor of media arts and sciences at M.I.T. Media Lab, and a team of her students. "So many robots are seen as mechanical drones that...
...real drama lies in whether Craig and Raina will have sex. Self-conscious, filled with associations of sex with abuse and punishment - hellish flames lick the background as he puts on his pajamas - Craig feels deeply conflicted. Thompson does a wonderful job of recreating the chemistry between the nurturing Raina and the lonely Craig. You can feel that special, adolescent magnetism that comes from two alienated teenagers. In a key moment, Raina gives Craig a crazy-quilt blanket that she made. In return she asks him to paint a mural on her bedroom wall. In Raina, Craig finds his muse...
...Jordanian border. Jabarah is the older brother of Mohammed "Sammy" Jabarah, who is currently in U.S custody and has, according to U.S. officials, admitted involvement in a series of al-Qaeda plots in Southeast Asia. What marks the Jabarah brothers as somewhat unique among al-Qaeda operatives is their background as Canadians - their Iraqi father and Kuwaiti mother had emigrated to St. Catherines, Ontario, about 200 miles north of Detroit, in 1994. The boys are believed to have traveled to Pakistan and joined Al Qaeda in the late 1990s, and despite his relative youth, one U.S. official describes the brother...