Word: emperor
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Since 1968, Gerald Kooyman of the University of California at San Diego has studied emperor penguins, beguiling flightless birds that are dependent on Antarctic sea ice. The penguins need 255 days of sea ice in order to complete the cycle from egg laying to the stage when fledglings are hardy enough to begin their wanderings through the southern ocean. Typically, the young birds jump into the water only two weeks or so before the ice breaks up. This year, says Kooyman, the ice near Franklin Island broke up in mid-December, two weeks before the fledglings were ready to embark...
...reverence was incorrigible. Others, too, seemed mesmerized and hypnotized by a cosmic aura of awe and amazement. I began to feel a little inadequate. Perhaps I was missing something. Perhaps I was forsaken a once-in-an-eon opportunity that I would later lament. Or, perhaps the emperor was as naked as the day he was born...
Congratulations on your inspiring cover story on Deng Xiaoping, the heroic Chinese leader whose vision, guts, iron will and economic reforms helped modernize his country and ensure Asia-Pacific progress [THE NEXT CHINA, March 3]. History will remember Deng along with Emperor Shih Huang-Ti and Mao Zedong, statesmen whose human flaws should not detract from their many far-reaching achievements. Deng's success in reforming China has as its legacy Asian prosperity, free enterprise, peace and stability. WILSON Y. LEE FLORES Quezon City, the Philippines...
Oliver Stone: "It was definitely a conspiracy. The soothsayer warning Caesar was in on it from the beginning, but he began to feel pangs of doubt. Obviously Brutus was deeply jealous of his friend, but the conspiracy penetrated still further, probably including the now-emperor Octavian, as well as Cleopatra...
...Chinese culture, the Emperor is Emperor until he dies, and the new leaders can't do anything until he's left the scene," says TIME News Service director Richard Hornik, a former Beijing bureau chief, who coordinated our reporting effort. "So China has been stuck in neutral for the past few years." Last week the country shifted back into gear...