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...India and Australia. The Guardian, a major newspaper in London, wrote: “A pair of women students have delivered a frisson to the fusty realms of Harvard, an institution previously associated with gawky teenage genius and the American establishment.” Despite the fact that H Bomb is currently just the whimsical proposal of two college students—who happen to go to Harvard—the media seems to find these two girls’ daydream to be worthy of ample space on their news pages and time on their media shows...
...things that I have never seen before and will never see again. I held a suicide bomber’s belt; I met a man whose face was burnt and eyes were blinded by shrapnel; I dined in a tyrant’s water palace; I even detonated a bomb (albeit a small...
...Chinese bomb factories rarely die. They just become car plants. At least that's what has happened at Qin Chuan in the northern city of Xi'an. The aging state-owned enterprise, which a decade ago made 130-mm artillery shells, now houses assembly lines that stamp out a boxy four-door hatchback called the Flyer. It built just 17,000 vehicles last year; many of the underpowered and unattractive cars were bought by local taxi companies on the order of provincial officials looking for a captive market. But even that didn't dismay factory managers trying to cash...
...making it affordable to the 50 million Chinese earning at least $7,000 a year, whom the government considers middle class. "Look around my office," says Liu, the BYD general manager. He has one dusty filing cabinet, bare whitewashed walls and a view overlooking the decrepit former bomb factory. "We can get by on the slimmest profits...
...close to collapse. Whatever happens, the country will surely remain heavily dependent on exports. Currently the value of what it sells abroad is equal to roughly 30% of its total economy (the figure for the U.S., in contrast, is 10% to 12%). But the pressures are building, and when bomb factories are producing cars financed by an electric-battery company, the future can only be described as highly volatile...