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Business leaders the world over love to rhapsodize about the virtues of globalization, and they often claim to be driving the process. But being a cheerleader is a lot less daunting than actually playing the game. According to a poll of more than 900 top executives worldwide, a surprising number of corporate chiefs are worried that their own companies don't have what it takes to compete in the international marketplace...
...Russians last January nabbed foreign operatives--British spies, they claim--who used an electronics-filled fake rock on a Moscow street to transmit classified documents...
TIME asked, "Does Sending More Soldiers To Iraq Make Any Sense?" [Jan. 15]. First, President George W. Bush's opponents claim we don't have enough troops to do the job. Then when indications are that more will be sent, the same folks claim that won't work either. There's no place for such political cynicism, whether it is espoused by congressional Democrats or TIME magazine, when the lives of American troops are on the line...
Philosophers have argued over this claim for a quarter of a millennium without resolution. Time's up! Now scientists armed with brain scanners are stepping in to settle the matter. So far it looks like Hume was onto something; though reason can shape moral judgment, emotion is often decisive, and that explains some strange quirks in our moralizing...
...those old-school treehouse phones. Hang one end out the window and hope someone decides to listen. 12) Start babbling incoherently, convincing all in near proximity that you are having some sort of psychiatric breakdown from the stress of reading period. As they rush you out to UHS, claim that you were speaking in tongues and accuse them of persecuting you for your religion. When asked what religion that might be, become evasive and start babbling again. 13) Use your powers of animal empathy to communicate with Harvard Yard squirrels. They can chew through your bonds and, working...