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When Straus takes on Canaday, one would expect a difference in ambience: colonial elegance takes on bomb-shelter rigidity. But a disparity in study breaks? Unacceptable...
DIED. HANS BETHE, 98, last of the scientific titans who helped devise the atom bomb for the U.S. government's top-secret Manhattan Project; in Ithaca, N.Y. Before heading the theoretical-physics division at Los Alamos, the brilliant, unpretentious refugee from Nazi Germany took on an age-old mystery, the question of precisely how the sun and stars keep burning, and solved it in six weeks. Later a vocal proponent of disarmament, he criticized Ronald Reagan's Star Wars plan in the 1980s, saying, "We need to try to understand the other fellow and try to come to some agreement...
Therese Frentz, a member of the Air Force's FBI-like Office of Special Investigations, was sitting at a café in Baghdad's Green Zone last October when a bomb went off less than 10 ft. away. Frentz was blown into the air, the force literally ripping off her clothes and scorching her upper body. Shrapnel put a hole in her left leg the size of a tennis ball. Bits of the burgundy plastic café table and metal from the blast shot into her head, tearing her left ear 80% off. She remembers thinking, "Wrong place, wrong time...
...move: the U.S. agreeing to a plan forged by the British, French and Germans to offer Iran trade incentives if it abandons its nuclear-weapons program. In return, the Europeans will back Bush's plan to ask the U.N. Security Council for punitive sanctions if Iran keeps pursuing the Bomb. Rice also appears to support a controversial French plan to pacify the Shi'ite militant organization Hizballah by letting it play a formal role in Lebanese politics...
...presentation with a serious talk about landmines in Afghanistan—the issue that got him mad enough to start drawing “Get Your War On†in the first place. He showed the audience a clip of a mine expert locating and defusing a bomb in an Afghan desert, and promoted the anti-landmine charity to which he donates much of his proceeds...