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...cure for the ennui of the wired generation or an incipient form of social protest may be open to debate. But what is clear is that flash mobbing is global, and it's spreading. One mob recently gathered in New York City's Central Park, mimicked bird calls and chanted "Nature, nature" for 20 seconds at 7:26 p.m. and then left. Another crowd stopped in the middle of a busy Berlin street to shout into their cell phones. Some participants claim flash mobs unite strangers and create communities, but not all resort to such high-minded justifications...
...intelligence more reliable than the sheik's tip, members of Task Force 20, the military's special-operations unit charged with nabbing high-value targets in Iraq, quietly descended on an airstrip near Mosul last Wednesday--backed by MC-130 combat Talon planes, modified humvees and so-called little-bird attack helicopters--to prepare for a potential assault. A battalion from the 101st Airborne Division, based in Sinjar, was on alert to seal off escape routes leading to the Syrian border. But that day Saddam was not to be found. "We shoot a lot of dry holes...
...been over 2,500 years since the Oracle first offered the ancient Greeks a glimpse of their futures, and soothsaying is still pretty hit and miss. Today's seers may favor predictive software over, say, bird entrails, but if they could really see into the future, they'd be so rich they wouldn't have to tell fortunes for a living. But here's a sure thing: the future's big business. Just ask Peter Schwartz. As chairman of the California-based Global Business Network, a "scenario planning" firm advising corporations and governments, it's Schwartz's job to know...
...Tricorner hats-off to TIME for your marvelous feature on Franklin. Think of how much less hawkish our country might be if, to keep us humble, we had selected the turkey for our national bird, as Franklin preferred, instead of the eagle. A champion of the right of all to be heard regardless of differing opinions, Franklin would have a lot to say about today's election process. He would demand that voters know the positions of all the presidential candidates, Democrats and Republicans, and insist they all get equal time in public debates. LAURIE DOBSON Rowayton, Conn...
...whether it is possible to 'go modern' and still 'be British.'" In 1933 he helped found Unit One, a movement that aimed to revitalize British art by embracing Continental modernism. One of his most successful Surrealist works is Landscape From a Dream (1936-38), where an angry bird, framed by the skeleton of a folding screen, peers at its reflection against a Dorset coastline. But the English landscape eventually triumphed over secondhand motifs. Nash had always been something of an animist, recording in his autobiography a lifelong sense of the spirit of place. After the outbreak of World...