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...press was 20 miles away at the Moon Palace Golf & Spa Resort, where reporters paid $360 a night for rooms that included a whirlpool with a family-size bottle of bubble bath. The property is so massive that I was in ?Edifico 23,? part of the ?Mango? complex. The Moon is an ?all-inclusive? resort, meaning that guest receive a wristband giving them unlimited access to all the bars and restaurants on the property. ?A cruise ship on land,? is how one journalist put it. There?s an extra charge for the temporary tattoos and full-body massages available poolside...
...Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears, Tom Lutz writes that "weeping often occurs at precisely those times when we are least able to fully verbalize complex and overwhelming emotions." We cry when words aren't enough, which suggests that any uptick in public tears may be proportional to a loss in our ability to articulate what we feel...
...While Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and a line of U.S. generals hit the airwaves to deny the allegations and counter that the images had been staged, no one had heard from the men on the ground who'd stormed the complex, nor from the man the world was being told had been freed. That is until today. In a palace complex deep within a U.S. base, the Iraqi commander who led the raid and the liberated hostage both spoke to TIME, giving their first public accounts of that day's fateful events and largely confirming the U.S. claims...
...Weinberger had left the Pentagon two years earlier by the time that happened, followed two years later by the collapse of the Soviet Union itself. But since then, no Pentagon leader - or President, for that matter - has succeeded in weaning the nation's military-industrial complex from Weinberger's Cold War high. Despite the lack of a superpower rival, in fact, Pentagon spending now is higher than the Cold War average ($401 billion in today's dollars for the Cold War, compared to a $513 billion request for the proposed budget for next year...
...Alaskan waters, followed by seafaring hunters from the Bering Strait. With their boats, those hunters, the forebears of Canadian Inuit, eventually spread east to Greenland. For reasons still not clear, the Dorset disappeared. As with most environmental changes, the warming of northern Canada set in motion a series of complex, interrelated events that produced winners and losers...