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...tapped to head the fledgling Colorado Symphony in Denver. In 2002 the Bournemouth Symphony hired her away, making her the first woman to head a major orchestra in England. In 2003, Gramophone, the big classical-music magazine published in Britain (they have those over there), picked her as its Artist of the Year...
...Department sponsored a design competition for a new kind of weapons system--the strategic bomber. While Germany, Japan and Italy bombed civilians in World War II, only the U.S. and Britain configured their forces and defined their war-fighting doctrines around the central element of a massive strategic air arm designed to carry the battle to the enemy's civilian society. In Europe the U.S. B-17 and B-24 bomber fleets made a considerable effort to restrict their attacks to high-value economic and military targets. But in the endgame of the war against Japan, long-range...
...dopamine cycle may not be the only thing that drives gamblers. Personality also plays a part. This month researchers in the U.S., Britain and New Zealand released the latest results from an ongoing, 30-year study of roughly 1,000 children born in the early 1970s. One purpose of the research was to determine which temperament types were most likely to lead to addictions...
...Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) signed in 1968, the nuclear powers--including the U.S.--promised to "pursue negotiations in good faith" leading to a treaty on "general and complete disarmament." None of the nuclear signatories to the NPT meant what they said, and in only one of them--Britain--has there ever been a politically significant mass movement in favor of unilateral nuclear disarmament. (The young Tony Blair was once a supporter...
...place. Every Pakistani remembers seeing TV films of the hills' shuddering at the jolt from underground, like a camel shaking off a layer of dust. Russia, which has pledged to update its nuclear arsenal, knows that its bombs are what maintain its pretensions to be a great power. Neither Britain nor France will give up its nuclear weapons, at least partly because if either did, it would leave the other as the sole nuclear state in Western Europe...