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While insurgent sources in Iraq told TIME they had no prior knowledge of the Amman attacks, the fact that al-Zarqawi would strike Jordan wasn't surprising. U.S. military officials have viewed Jordan as an inevitable target for al-Zarqawi in his effort to export jihad outside Iraq. Jordan's King Abdullah II has longstanding ties to the U.S. (he went to junior high at the Eaglebrook School in Massachusetts and prep school at Deerfield Academy) and has quietly supported the U.S. war effort, despite its deep unpopularity with the Jordanian public. Jordan is a staging ground for the private...
...past - plus stubborn poverty, environmental degradation, corruption and an aids epidemic that has left 1 out of 5 adults hiv positive. But the literacy rate is a respectable 86%, and 5,000 new titles are published each year. Besides, as in India and other poor countries that export fiction, great troubles can make for great novels. Asked if the end of apartheid would take the zip out of South African fiction, Gordimer once responded: "On the contrary. We've got plenty of problems." Gordimer's Get a Life, published this month in Britain and the U.S., is a good example...
Chances are your shirt, your pants and your underwear all came from southern China, the new manufacturing center of the world. Add one more export: your flu virus. With its dense populations of people and animals trading germs back and forth, southern China has been the traditional birthplace of influenza, including the nasty strain of H5N1 bird flu that's keeping public-health officials awake at night. The viruses that evolve in a chicken in southern China's Guangdong province could eventually end up in your lungs--and that's what makes a chain-smoking, impetuous Chinese virologist named...
STICKYBRAIN In addition to storing notes and research like a digital filing cabinet, this Mac-only program lets you highlight something on a Web page, such as a phone number or an online discount, and export it into a note for easy access later. Have a sudden thought? Create a new note with a quick keystroke. Need to look something up in your notes? StickyBrain searches speedily for any word...
Pros: Has a clean, simple interface and lets you export notes to a Palm PDA or an iPod for reading on the go. StickyBrain 4, due out by early November, will store even more formats, including PDF files and old Web pages...