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...bird! It's a plane! No, it's Superman Returns, the new installment of the man of steel's big-screen story, out this week. Does he still stand for truth, justice and box-office brawn? At 50, SUPERMAN was soaring high...
Five months into his first term, T.R. launches his trust-busting campaign by suing the Northern Securities Co. He also establishes himself as a conservationist, creating Crater Lake National Park in Oregon (the first of five such parks he designates) and proclaiming Pelican Island, Fla., the first federal bird reservation. (He will set up 50 more.) Other highlights include his July 4, 1903, "Square Deal" speech in Springfield, Ill., and the treaty with Panama to build the Panama Canal...
...structures allow rapid deployment. If the world is not as flat as Thomas Friedman has envisioned, then resources will continue to flow to the engines of world capitalism. Take note, ye Australians with your fat tax cuts, new cars and McMansions?and heed the warning of the little Kiwi bird...
...economic laboratory. Policy makers can see what works and what doesn't. Perhaps, as some are now suggesting, the Kiwi is becoming the canary in the coal mine of the new global economic order. According to David Skilling, chief executive of The New Zealand Institute, the health of the bird tells us how globalization affects countries on the periphery?and that, of course, includes Australia, despite being five times the size of its neighbor. Geography still matters. And New Zealand, he argues, is being left behind by globalization. "Things are seen more quickly and clearly in New Zealand," Skilling told...
...Bird Flu Overhyped? Anxiety about avian flu is spreading far faster than the disease...