Word: curtained
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...idea. The shuttle has done some wondrous work, but has cost too much and achieved too little. The space station continues to hemmorhage money and return not a whit of good science. So space watchers had good reason to be dubious yesterday when NASA at last pulled back the curtain on its plans for the next generation of spacecraft intended to return human beings back to the moon. As it turned out, the plan is an awfully good one-sort...
...historical import has diminished. That's a positive thing, a sign of how profoundly the U.S.-China relationship has deepened in three decades. When Deng Xiaoping met Jimmy Carter in the White House in 1979?memorable quote: "Has your Congress passed a law that I cannot smoke?"?the bamboo curtain had just been prized open: full diplomatic relations between the two countries were only four weeks old, and the first imports from China?lots of wicker baskets?were just hitting American stores. Today, the U.S. and China trade more than $200 billion in goods a year: American families watch televisions...
...Mubarak?s supporters maintained a strong presence inside some voting stations, too. TIME reporters saw some, unimpeded by judicial supervisors loitering and peering over the shoulders of voters, who were marking their ballots in full view of others rather than behind a curtain in secret. Others chanted slogans inside a polling station at a Sayeda Zeinab elementary school...
...only the second of his 104 papal trips, but perhaps the most moving -and momentous. His inspiring, but carefully chosen words were credited by many as opening the first crack in the edifice of communism. John Paul's deft diplomacy and his experience of life behind the Iron Curtain made the Polish pontiff uniquely placed to tackle the defining political issue of the day. But Benedict XVI has assumed the papacy at a moment where the Cold War has been replaced by the challenge of Islamic extremism - an issue very much on his mind even when he was a leading...
...ever since?like Titanic (1994), a flapping ship of fools commemorating a friend and former political prisoner who died in Russia in 1994 for want of a blood transfusion?but they have a forward motion to them now, and breathe with the fresh air of life outside the Iron Curtain. tel: (44-141) 552 7080; www.sharmanka.com