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...writer and a powerful commentator on the perils of China's giddy embrace of capitalism. Chen's main character proves that it's often the most scared, the most hurt, the most rejected who can show the lemming-like masses where they're headed. And in this case, the cliff looks dangerously close. Lu Xun's madman ends his famous diary with the plea: "Save the children." Though times have changed, the warning from A Private Life is much the same...
...other movie projects. Or at least it will, come early September, if a helicopter stunt pilot who sharpened his skills on all those films succeeds in bringing one of NASA's most unusual--and least known--spacecraft home safely. The ship is called Genesis, the helicopter pilot is Cliff Fleming, and together they may help NASA get its best-ever chance to examine a piece of the sun itself...
...warn that the Roberts proposal "would result in the demoralization of a proud and extremely capable agency and less security for the American people... It is time for someone to slam the brakes on before the politics of the moment drives the security of the American people off a cliff." Numerous other CIA defenders were equally critical of a plan to put much of the U.S. intelligence community under the new name, National Intelligence Service...
...dreadlocked Third World icon Bob Marley as the main musical act for the country's independence bash. Marley tunes like Zimbabwe had helped rally the world ("Africans a liberate Zimbabwe/ Every man got a right/ To decide his own destiny") but Mugabe would have preferred the squeaky-clean Brit Cliff Richard. For once he was overruled, and the reggae star spread a message of hope that the racial strife of Rhodesia would give way to color-blind harmony. The message was heard even in faraway America, where a young reporter named Andrew Meldrum quit his job, sold...
...became a religious center for the Greek Orthodox Church inthe 14th century, when monks seeking to get closer to God built a monastery on the summit of the Great Meteoron. For hundreds of years, the only way for pilgrims to reach the monasteries was to be hauled up the cliff faces in baskets. Nowadays, steps hewn into the rock offer more practical routes. Most visitors start their journey from Kalambaka, a picturesque town at the foot of Meteora; the monasteries are all between a 3-km and 5-km walk from here. Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative...