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...farewell address in 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower warned of a sprawling "military-industrial complex" that might act as an invisible hand pushing humanity closer to its own destruction. But what if the military-industrial complex could end up saving humanity from arguably its biggest threat: climate change...
...available in India. The brakes lack feel and there's little storage space, but the car turned heads. Our photographer drove a bright yellow Nano - this one fully equipped with air-conditioning - through the highways, cobbled avenues and side streets of Pune. People swerved and tailgated to get a closer look, waving and shouting, "Hey, Nano!" as the car passed. When we stopped, a crowd immediately gathered. "It looks very appealing to the eye," says Bhagwat Pulsandar, 25, a Pune law student. "Possessing a car is a status symbol," says Rajib Das, 30, a shopkeeper in Sukantonagar, West Bengal...
...this point it unfortunately looks pretty serious. Even so, our rotation is shaping up really nicely with Berardo, Hulse, and Suter, but we’ll spend time on this trip still looking for that fourth guy who can wrap up the rotation as well as a closer. Hopefully by about the middle of the week we’ll think of saving some of our stronger pitching for the Ivy games.” Playing teams already in midseason form will be a challenge for the Crimson, but will also give the team a taste of how competitive...
...haven't gotten pregnant," she explains. "The longer they go without a pregnancy, the more tempting it is to think that it can't happen to them." Women are also vulnerable to the misconception that a pregnancy - even unintended - can cement a relationship and bring a couple closer together. In fact, all of the statistics show that babies stress relationships; more couples end up splitting (see: Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston) than marrying (see: Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz...
...naturalist depiction of the human face; The Bassetki statue, the first known lost-wax method of copper casting. On and on and on. Every step you take in the Iraq museum, you get to say "the first." If there were truly a cradle of civilization, you can't get closer to it than the Iraq museum. Its opening proclaims to the world that Iraq is more than just a bunch of bombers and people who would murder each other in the name of religion. It's not perfect. There are 28 galleries; two were opened. They were only open...