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...When I floated the idea of unilateral intervention with a democracy activist in Rangoon, he brightened up. "People would be so happy if they got foreign food from the sky," he said. Then, he whispered to me that Than Shwe's compound in Naypyidaw is now visible on Google Earth, in case I wanted to pass on a helpful tip to the U.S. Pacific Command. But as tempting as it might sound to a Burmese opposition figure to airdrop high-energy biscuits over refugee camps - or lob a missile at junta central in the new capital - military action would...
...astonished that Jeffrey Sachs thinks the problem of world food shortage can be solved by simply growing more food. With the world population expected to reach 9 billion by mid-century, which will stress every resource on Earth, we need to begin discussing some of the taboos around curbing population growth. John Noble, GENEVA
...that young Chicagoan who scoured the Marshall Fields on State Street for marked down Guess? What happened to me at Harvard?There’s a picture of me that my mother took when we drove from Chicago to Cambridge at the start of my freshman year. Why on Earth we chose to make that 18-hour drive, I’ll never know. Well, that’s not entirely true: I was starting a new adventure.In the picture, I’m standing in front of a “Welcome to Massachusetts” sign...
...Eventually, subscribers will be able to use the software to conceive and create their own online games. Already users can build models of the exteriors of their homes or other buildings and place them in real settings on Microsoft's Virtual Earth. (Google Earth offers something similar with its SketchUp modeling software...
...knows he can't win as the Black Candidate. I remember watching Obama in a school auditorium in Berlin, N.H., this winter, long before Rev. Wright became a household name. One aging hippie-after saying he hoped his question "doesn't seem odd in the whitest place on earth"-asked Obama if he would launch another "national conversation about race," as President Clinton did. And Obama said: No. "I'm less interested in a conversation about race in the abstract," he said. "All the self-flagellation, it's not useful. African-Americans get all riled up, and whites get defensive...