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...Many cultural idiosyncrasies are amusing. There is a veritable passion for public display of affection: if there’s a couple—in a theater, on the subway, at a Festa Junina—they are probably making out. There is a curious love for English words and phrases: malls are called “shoppings” and American music dominates pop radio. Asking for directions can result in a 30-minute conversation. Working for the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, I have learned that everyone wants to talk to a reporter. The subject...
...bombers in Bali killed 200 night-clubbers and wounded hundreds more by detonating two separate devices, one to draw curious onlookers and a second that exploded in the midst of the assembled crowd. A first explosion outside Tiger Tiger might well have drawn onlookers to Cockspur Street, into the range of the second potential car bomb. With reporting by Eben Harrell/Houston
...bombers in Bali killed 200 night-clubbers and wounded hundreds more by detonating two separate devices, one to draw curious onlookers and a second that exploded in the midst of the assembled crowd. A first explosion outside Tiger Tiger might well have drawn onlookers to Cockspur Street, into the range of the second potential car bomb...
...sources saying that the bomb could have caused "carnage" if it had detonated, but it's still far from clear how effective it would, in fact, have been. In 2002, bombers in Bali killed 200 night-clubbers and wounded hundreds more by detonating two separate devices, one to draw curious onlookers and a second that exploded in the midst of the assembled crowd. Dr. Peter Neumann, the director of the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College, London, told TIME that, based on the limited information available about the London car bombs, he didn't think they could have...
HOWDY DOODY WAS FINE, BUT for legions of future scientists of the '50s and '60s, Mr. Wizard was the man. On TV's weekly Watch Mr. Wizard, the infectiously curious former actor Don Herbert intrigued kids by respecting their intelligence, employing them as assistants, and conducting cool experiments--with paper plates, straws and teapots--that illuminated such mysteries as how rain is made and why birds fly. The Peabody Award--winning show, which ran from 1951 to 1965, spawned thousands of Mr. Wizard clubs across the country, and in the '60s and '70s was cited by half the applicants...