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TIME: You told a story at your victory celebration about the first moment you realized that you had a real shot at winning this race. It was when you saw a homemade sign with your name. Can you tell me where you were and when that was? Brown: I drive around a lot. It was in central Mass., I think up near the Lunenburg area...
...never-ending debate between residents of Shanghai and Beijing about which city is superior, one Beijing trump card has always been proximity to the countryside. In Shanghai, Beijingers point out smugly, you can drive for three hours and still be trapped in urban sprawl. In the capital, not much more than an hour on the road gets you out into the stark, sparsely populated beauty of the Western Hills, with the Great Wall thrown in as a bonus. Sadly for Beijing partisans, they will be less able to rely on that argument in future, because from now on Shanghaiers will...
Nestled among bamboo forests in rolling hills a 2 ½-hour drive from Shanghai, Moganshan is a once glamorous hill-station retreat that is just beginning to reawaken. In the early decades of the 20th century, foreign residents of Shanghai - later followed by rich Chinese families - flocked to these hills for relief during the humid summers. They built sprawling houses complete with swimming pools, tennis courts and dance floors. After the communist takeover, Moganshan retreated into obscurity, with many of the mansions crumbling into ruin. But in the past decade, visitors have been drawn back to it by its serene...
...agents in Afghanistan. The incident occurred in the city of Ghazni in July 2008, after she was detained by local police near one of the city's mosques on suspicion that she was a suicide bomber. At the time of her arrest, she allegedly had with her a flash drive with references to specific "cells" and "enemies" and various chemicals in cold-cream jars, including a quantity of sodium cyanide. Prosecutors say that the following day, as a contingent of U.S. soldiers and FBI agents prepared to question her at a nearby police station, Siddiqui grabbed an unsecured...
...thing about last week's deadly great-white shark attack, just south of Cape Town and about 15 minutes' drive from my house, is that everyone knows the sharks are there. We've been warned many times - not least by the annual shark attacks that happen up and down South Africa's lengthy coastline. We also know that the warm waters of False Bay, south of the city, are a favored breeding and feeding ground for great whites, particularly around Seal Island, a rock that sits in the middle of the bay and hosts a huge colony of Cape...