Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Iran and Afghanistan, two of the most profoundly fundamentalist Muslim countries, sit side by side, but common faith doesn't make them friendly. In fact, each despises the other's brand of Islam. Now Iran's Shi'ite leaders and the Sunni Taliban militia that has nearly succeeded in imposing its rule over most of Afghanistan are threatening to turn an ancient theological schism into a fighting...
...excitement began with a growing understanding of how rheumatoid arthritis works. Unlike its more common cousin, osteoarthritis, which causes pain in more than 20 million mostly older Americans through simple deterioration of joint cartilage, rheumatoid arthritis is a complex disease involving an immune system gone awry...
...idea of space tourism is suddenly hot. It has been 36 years since John Glenn dipped the first American toe into orbit; in the decades since, space travel has become numbingly common--essentially zero-gravity milk runs to ferry cargo up and down. But this very monotony has given Aldrin and others an idea. Now that visiting space is so routine, why shouldn't anyone--even a vacationer--be able to book a seat? Says Aldrin: "We're on the brink of at last democratizing space...
Prince Edward's Crown and Country, a TV series on things great and British, debuts this week on PBS. We noticed the prince has a few things in common with another independent filmmaker...
...hate triangles are altogether rarer. In John Burnham Schwartz's swift, smooth second novel, Reservation Road (Knopf; 292 pages; $24), the three-sided relationship between Ethan Learner, a pacifist English professor; his wife Grace, a trusting garden designer; and Dwight Arno, a temperamental probate lawyer, converges on a common point of pain: the hit-and-run death of 10-year-old Josh Learner, Ethan and Grace's music-prodigy son, at the cold steel hands of Dwight's Ford Taurus. The death is an accident, all blood and vectors, but the dark, emotional dance that follows is shown...