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Peer through the small window of one of Apollo Diamond's canister-like reactors, and it might seem as if you're staring at something from out of this world. The inside of the cramped chamber is bathed in a magenta glow more befitting a Los Angeles nightclub than a science lab. Evenly arrayed on a small plate at the center of this colorful haze are what looks like 16 lozenges burning with an even deeper pink...
...best armies in the world. Miraculous. But also the result of an infusion of about $43 billion in American Government aid over the years, and millions more contributed privately by Jews in America and elsewhere. ''The Israelis have produced a modern country -- doorknobs and hinges, plumbing fixtures, electrical supplies, chamber music, airplanes, teacups,'' Saul Bellow has written. ''It is both a garrison state and a cultivated society, both Spartan and Athenian. It tries to do everything, to understand everything, to make provision for everything . . . These people are actively, individually engaged in universal history. I don't see how they...
...British political parties nominate candidates for life peerages, which give recipients the title of lord or lady and allow them to sit in Britain's 748-member upper chamber of Parliament. Under a 1925 law, the sale of honors is illegal. Police are now attempting to find out if some peerages recommended since 2001 by all major parties were given in return for donations and secret loans. (More than 90 people have been questioned so far, including former Conservative leader Michael Howard.) They are also investigating whether another law, which says that all donations of more than $10,000 must...
...Party of Brazil have spent the last two months in a very public battle over who should get the key position of president of the lower house. Lawmakers have no incentive to change their ways. The job is just too comfortable. They might lack, as the head of the Chamber's Ethics Council said last year, "ethics, morality, conduct" but each gets an annual wage and benefits package that exceeds half a million dollars. Every member of congress has a monthly discretionary fund that tops $7,000. This in a country where the minimum wage is around $167. In fact...
...fuss? British political parties nominate candidates for life peerages, which give recipients the title of lord or lady and allow them to sit in Britain's 748-member upper chamber of Parliament. Under a 1925 law, the sale of honors is illegal. Police are now attempting to find out if some peerages recommended since 2001 by all major parties were given in return for donations and secret loans. They are also investigating whether another law, which says that all donations of more than $10,000 must be declared, has been broken...