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...Moon commander of the Royal Hussars' regiment, the British leader locked on her target with a laser beam and pulled the trigger, sending a 6-lb. practice shell 1,000 yds. directly to its mark. "I loved it!" exclaimed Thatcher. Peking Jan. 6, 1986 Life is getting better, fast, for many Chinese. Industrial production has leaped along with food output. Early in 1985 it was increasing at an annual rate of 23%, a pace Deng Xiaoping and his planners judged too rapid. They ordered a slowdown to avoid shortages and worsening inflation. In Mao's days, Chinese consumers dreamed...
...next day you?re on the Real World and people recognize you all over the world. I think the rise of reality TV is what really has fueled the fire and made the insatiable need to know and to be one of those celebrities even more rampant.... The fast-paced way information is able to be delivered just throws gasoline onto the fire and makes it blaze more...
...What kind of experience do you hope people walk away with after visiting Gizmodo? I hope that they walk away with an amazement of how fast gadgets are becoming more and more powerful. It's like hotrodders in the '60s - gearheads getting hot and bothered over things that other people wouldn't care about, like engines. It's the same thing with gadgets - they are the hotrod of our generation...
...Barcelona, Spain Field of Dreams Despite the continuing inquest into Zidane's head butting, the problem with Italy's victory is that decisions worth millions are left to an individual who can't always be right: the referee [July 17]. The pitch is too big, the action is too fast, and the players are too cunning for a single referee to make fair and foolproof judgments. Video refereeing is long overdue. The system transformed rugby into the best sport in the world and left football in the Dark Ages. The referee's decision may seem final, but it is fatally...
...near their homes and schools - tens of thousands of them in total during the nearly 20 years of conflict that still wracks this small east African country - Ojok made a stunning escape. In 2000, four years after he was stolen away, he dove underwater as his unit crossed a fast-flowing river, which carried him to safety. "When I came back," he says now, "there was only welcome," first by government soldiers, then by aid workers from the American Christian organization World Vision, then finally by his mother and grandmother. When Ojok returned, however, he found both of his brothers...