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...China: Broadcast Blues...
...rhetorical effect. Conservatives know their power in talk radio, cable television and publishing, and they exult in it. Democratic Senator Byron L. Dorgan of North Dakota recently commissioned a study of a week's worth of programming by the nation's 44 top-rated radio stations and found they broadcast 312 hours of conservative talk programming, compared with 5 hours of liberal shows. And with conservative authors staked out atop the nonfiction best-seller lists, the country's two largest publishers, Random House and Penguin Group, have added conservative imprints to their roster...
...locals and then passed out Chinese-made weapons to the cleric's men and led them on a number of successful raids, seizing more than 100 antitank missiles. When the same Green Berets couldn't dislodge a well-entrenched Iraqi detachment from around a bridge in Basra, they broadcast the sound of approaching tanks from their humvees, drawing the Iraqi troops out of hiding and exposing them to fire--a model psychological operation. "It was bait-and-ambush," the intelligence officer said later...
...morning of April 6, Nada Yunis was watching an Iraqi television broadcast of a tape of Saddam Hussein meeting with his son Qusay and a small group of top advisers in what looked like someone's home. On the wall behind Saddam were maps of Iraq, marked in heavy felt pen, that appeared to indicate troop deployments. Yunis recognized the melon-colored curtains and ruffled white drapes, the design of the stone floor, the geometric pattern on the empty chair next to Qusay, even some water damage on one of the walls. Saddam, she realized, was sitting in her living...
...what they claim are compelling clues that a stripped and mutilated mummy, first discovered in a side chamber of a royal Egyptian tomb more than 100 years ago, is the lost Nefertiti. The new expedition, funded by the Discovery Channel, will be chronicled in a TV special to be broadcast on Aug. 17. But much of the scientists' new evidence was shown to TIME last week. It is by no means conclusive--much of it is merely circumstantial. However, it may be as close as anyone has come to the queen in a long time...