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The 24,000-mile journey would have tired even the most zealous globetrotter, so it was understandable if Pope John Paul II appeared just a trifle fatigued during his seven-day visit to Australia last week. Arriving directly from a six-day tour of Bangladesh, Singapore, Fiji and New Zealand...
The large transnational corporations set up for business in South Africa to take advantage of the stability they perceived in the stronghanded white minority rule and the large supply of cheap South African Black labor. More than 75 percent of all transnational corporate investments on the continent of Africa were...
British officials were furious at the faintheartedness on the Continent but publicly confined themselves to polite expressions of disappointment. Other reactions were more forceful. London's Daily Mail called the Europeans "jellyfish," while in the U.S. the Wall Street Journal titled its editorial on the subject "The Euro-Cowards." Snapped...
Two months ago, 15 scientists flew into McMurdo Station, Antarctica, to investigate a mystery: What causes a thinning in atmospheric ozone above the frigid continent, a phenomenon that has peaked each October since it was first observed in 1983? It was hardly an academic question; the ozone layer is a...
Rutger saved the day by reaching over to buckle my seatbelt. A split second later we plowed into the jungle at hundreds of miles an hour. The sound of the exploding fuel tanks could be heard half a continent away.