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While Taft vacationed and Wilson gave as few speeches as possible, Roosevelt raced up the East Coast and down, across the South and into the Midwest. In Milwaukee, Wis., on Oct. 14, as he stood in an open car to salute a cheering crowd, a man a few feet away drew a revolver and fired, hitting Roosevelt in the chest and knocking him back into the car seat...
...Britain had significant battleship squadrons in the Far East. The fastest-growing naval force of all belonged to Japan, which was increasingly suspicious of Russia's creeping territorial controls in Manchuria. In February 1904, Japan launched a surprise attack on the Russian fleet anchored at Port Arthur on the coast of China. The 20th century struggle for dominance of East Asia had begun in earnest...
...idea of building a canal after a failed attempt by France. When the Colombian government rejected a new treaty allowing the U.S. to build a canal, Roosevelt became enraged. Soon after, a group of Panamanian separatist leaders declared a revolution. That same day, U.S. gunboats appeared off the coast to keep Colombia from reclaiming its territory. Roosevelt vigorously denied that the U.S. had fomented the revolution but defended his actions in characteristic terms: "To have acted otherwise ... would have been betrayal of the interests of the United States...
...festival" in 1998. Eight years later, the annual Boryeong Mud Festival, mudfestival.or.kr, sees a staggering 1.5 million visitors flock to the normally sleepy seaside destination for a week of gooey fun. Located 200 km (or about a two-hour bus ride) from Seoul, on the country's west coast, Boryeong is home to the soft and seemingly endless Daecheon Beach. From July 15-21, a section of this impressive, 13-km-long tidal flat will be the location of Mud Experience Land, the festival's heart?and despite all the talk of skin benefits, it's clear that most revelers...
...more companies are coming around to Lheem's thinking. Near Hyundai's plant, Nokia opened the first phase of a $150 million mobile-phone factory in March. In the state of Orissa on India's east coast, South Korean steel giant Posco plans to construct a $12 billion mill. SemIndia, a company formed by chip-industry executives, will break ground in June on a $3 billion semiconductor factory in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. Others are coming around, too. Dell Computer recently announced its intention to build a factory in India, joining those it already has in China...