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Surely you remember that bit of masterful 20th-century propaganda? In 1966, Mao Zedong, the communist leader who united China and brought it back from the brink of ruin, famously swam the Yangtze. This stunt confounded the China hands and others who had believed that Mao was either dead - done in by his rivals - or dying of some illness, as had been rumored. (He was 73 after all.) But, no, the Leader was alive and astoundingly healthy: On a day in July, the Chairman appeared in his bathrobe on the riverbanks in Wuhan, accompanied by 5,000 young people...
...news was that none of that fertility was in evidence today. This was the most sterile Apple event since Jobs returned from exile, unified Apple and brought the company back from the brink of ruin. He actually spent 15 minutes on a new iTunes feature called Genius that does little more than recommend playlists of music you might like based on music you're listening to, with one click. These if-you-like-that-then-you'll-like-this music discovery services have been around since the mid-1990s. It's hardly the kind of zowee innovation we've come...
...Mutiusinazita, like much of rural Zimbabwe, is hungry, and hostage to the country's political stalemate. Years of economic free-fall and the government's decision to expel humanitarian aid organizations ahead of the controversial June 27 runoff presidential election have left farming communities on the brink of starvation. Saving rural Zimbabwe from starvation will require a political settlement that restarts the economy and restores international assistance, but President Robert Mugabe remains locked in a stalemate over how to share power with MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Tsvangirai won more votes than Mugabe in the first round vote on March...
...After a meeting between the two sides in Harare, Tuesday, Tsvangirai said there had been a "positive development," indicating that a settlement might be in the works. The talks had earlier appeared to be on the brink of collapse, as both sides balked at a proposal by the South African mediator, President Thabo Mbeki, for an equal power sharing arrangement. For villages like Mutiusinazitsa, relief from hunger may depend heavily on the troubled talks in Harare reaching a positive conclusion...
...challenge of having to beat North Korea in order to secure one of the 32 places at World Cup 2010 in South Africa. Even more potentially volatile was the May 31 match-up between Sudan and Chad - FIFA postponed that one indefinitely, because the two countries were on the brink of war. (A World Cup qualifier in which El Salvador beat Honduras in 1969 saw long-running tensions erupt into a brief war.) But many in Turkey and Armenia are seeing their national teams' World Cup encounter in Yerevan on Saturday as an opportunity to help thaw the troubled relationship...