Word: collisional
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In the aftermath of 9/11, Germany ordered its nuclear power industry to devise a defense against aerial attacks. The industry responded with a smokescreen--literally. Germany's 18 nuclear power plants were to be protected by fog machines that would obscure the plants from incoming aircraft. The plan was sent...
The August meeting in Damascus was a confrontation between two men with vastly different resumes, styles and visions. Hariri, 60 at the time of his death, was a gregarious, self-made billionaire with friends from Paris to the Persian Gulf. Assad, an ophthalmologist, now 39, had inherited the presidency after...
Born in Bombay (where he was buried on Saturday), he met Ivory, his professional and personal partner, in 1961 in Manhattan. The Merchant-Ivory brand ("Well," Ismail said of the billing, "who wants to be known as an Ivory Merchant?") won wide acclaim with their first collaborations, The Householder and...
The changes become even more necessary when you are. Sept. 11 brought a screaming collision between theory and practice at the nation's oldest military academy. Instantly there was massive security on the post. Gates closed, civilian traffic blocked, snipers on the rooftops, military police stationed every 50 yards or...
If there's a Phase III, it may be taking your life in a whole new direction. Often a collision of the personal and professional triggers the reinvention. For Dr. Lisa Friedman, 52, it started when the internist had breast cancer diagnosed in September 2001. During the course of her...