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October 1, 1973: War breaks out in the Middle East as tank battles rage along the Suez Canal and the Golan Heights...
...Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, as the city is officially known, is literally at Hong Kong's border. After immigration, a visitor walks across a narrow bridge spanning a stinking, black canal?the first whiff of something rotten in the air?and steps directly into a city overeager to offer its wares. The first building to confront new arrivals is a six-storied, mirrored monument to China's status as the world's counterfeit capital. Shops display perfect replicas of Armani suits, Gucci handbags, Nike trainers, Rolex watches, Cartier jewelry, as well as racks of pirated videos and discs. Outside, televisions...
...scientists reported that ice-free routes have emerged during summer months. Within 20 years, the passage is expected to be passable without an icebreaker escort. This northern route would cut the distance from Hamburg to Yokohama to 6,920 nautical miles, as compared with 11,430 through the Suez Canal. That could lead to more efficient shipping of all sorts of cargo between Europe and Asia--especially oil and other mineral wealth from Siberia...
...entire generation. And in that sense, the rest of Europe is starting to resemble Brussels more than it thinks. The polyglot, Continental crowd at the Brussels stagiaire party was hardly unique: on any given evening, a similar scene could unfold in the Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin, or the Canal St.-Martin in Paris, or the Docas district in Lisbon, or the clubs in Vienna's Bermuda Dreieck...
Much attention has been paid to improvements in miniaturization. But smaller is not necessarily better. The tinier the aid, the more difficult it is to manipulate the controls and change the batteries. In addition, smaller aids--which fit in the ear, in the canal, or completely in the canal--simply can't pack the power of larger, behind-the-ear or body-aid models...