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That girl was me. I never got arrested like Robert Downey Jr.--more because of dumb luck or chance than anything else. But if I had been arrested, my eyes would have looked the same as his--a hard, puzzling, faraway stare into the camera. It isn't smugness. It's actually honesty, as strange as that sounds. It's a look that says, There, now you know who I really am. I'm not lying and pretending I know how to live in this world. I don't. Not alone, not without my lover...
...geography of Japan. Like Korea, Japan was always on the periphery of a great empire. The cultural metropole was in China, and Japan was forever trying to catch up with the latest trends and fashions in art, clothes, literature, religion, politics and philosophy. News of these trends arrived from faraway cities, such as Chang'an, Nanjing, Kaifeng or Beijing...
Shaky though his rationale may be, the question of whether to act now on global warming may go down as the most important long-term decision Bush makes. While melting glaciers on faraway mountains may seem like a remote problem to most Americans, the vast majority of climatologists are convinced that global warming is a real problem that could have catastrophic consequences by the end of the century. Over the past three months, hundreds of scientists working under the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have warned that the earth is not only warming but also warming faster than...
...Opera thrived thanks to word of mouth on the Web. After all, on the Internet no one knows you're a tiny firm based in faraway Norway. Opera gained a reputation for being smaller and faster than products offered by Microsoft and Netscape. Opera suffered a setback earlier this year when Finnish phone giant Nokia signed an agreement with Netscape. "We work hard to get these deals but recognize that sometimes we'll get them and sometimes we won't," Von Tetzchner says.?For many telecommunications firms, size matters: potential partners wonder whether a company as small as Opera...
...Crusader's woes won't end even if the gun manages to find its way to faraway runways. In the U.S. military's two most recent wars--against Iraq and Yugoslavia--Army officers were leery of pushing their tanks to Baghdad or Belgrade over flimsy bridges. If orders had come to take those capitals, engineers would have had to spend weeks reinforcing the spans or putting up new ones, hardly a blueprint for a blitzkrieg...