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...well the last round against Saddam - when Bush the Elder refused to go the last mile and topple Saddam in 1991. They remember America's isolationist reflexes in Bosnia and Kosovo - "Let's bomb 'em and get out." Allies loathe entrapment in indeterminate wars that leave them holding the bag. Listen to German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer make the point. Does the U.S. understand, he asks, that victory has to be followed by a "complete reordering of the Middle East, above all politically?" This might "require a U.S. presence that could last for decades. But are the Americans truly willing...
...Chances are,” Glickman said, picking up a bag of potato chips provided for the event, “these were made from genetically engineered plants, since one-third of the corn and two-thirds of the soybeans in the country are grown from genetically engineered seeds...
...completely reasonable decision, given that there is no shortage of refrigerator space in our office, to bring a jar of mayonnaise to work and then put it on my sandwich at noon rather than putting it on in the morning and letting the sandwich get soggy in my bag. That topic is still too painful for me to write about at length...
Help is here for America's students, who, come fall, once again will carry the weight of the world on their shoulders--in overstuffed, spine-compressing backpacks. Nike has just introduced the BioKNX load-management system--O.K., an ergonomic book bag--which helps redistribute the weight of all those texts. It has wide, padded straps, "air pods" that look like bubble wrap--to protect the lumbar region--and a padded waist belt that shifts weight from the spine to the hips. A molded plastic panel inside the pack supports the spine...
...clues. Action games have become ultrasophisticated, with realistic lighting and weather effects. Some take place in vast mazes where it's "70 hours before you come back to the same place," says Bodman, as he pilots a flying saucer along a network of tunnels. If action isn't your bag, you can try a real-life simulation like SimCity. It's really "a management sim[ulation]," says Bodman. You are "town planner, chief executive, deity even," supplying roads, housing, electricity, employment. The exhibition's section on The Sims, the virtual dollhouse bought by more women than men, shows original designs...