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...reminisced. “And that was what the space program described, that sense of possibility and always reaching out to new frontiers.” Apparently today’s American youth don’t need this sense anymore. The power of space exploration, however, is quite clear to China and India, who will now gladly take this opportunity to land their own astronauts on the Moon or Mars well before the US is capable of doing...
First, though, let's make one thing clear. The idea of natural cooking is neither new nor, really, even an idea, properly speaking. It's the way everybody in the world always cooked, which was briefly obscured for a few years in specific places, i.e., Western restaurants in the 19th and 20th centuries. And not even for all of that time: by the 1970s, the so-called fresh-food revolution was on, and Alice Waters was serving statement salads at her influential California restaurant Chez Panisse. The idea got bigger and bigger and won the hearts of Gen X chefs...
...Lanka is a clear example of a democracy by ethnicity that isn’t working in a culture where the vulnerable members are not protected...
Clay finished fourth. Not even on the medal stand. The competition’s standout athlete failed to clear a height in that fateful pole vault, forcing him to concede 804 points to eventual winner Maurice Smith—a blow magnified by Clay’s 785-point loss...
...Just as all politics is local (to a degree), all diplomacy is domestic (to a large extent). China's dramatic growth may have increased its ability to be less deferential toward the U.S. But when officials loudly proclaim that foreign leaders should steer clear of the Dalai Lama, lash out against Clinton's "information imperialism" or stoke popular indignation about Taiwan, their motivation is largely a desire to play the nationalism card as effectively as possible at home, and it is as much a sign of insecurity as it is one of bravado. They see a value in deflecting criticism...