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Streetcars stopped in silence. A bell rang mournfully seven times. It was 8:15 a.m. in Hiroshima last Tuesday, 40 years after an atomic bomb nicknamed Little Boy burst 1,850 ft. over the city with a searing, blinding flash, killing 118,000 people within days and dooming nearly as many to slower deaths in later years. In a speech to 55,000 onlookers at Hiroshima Memorial Peace Park, Mayor Takeshi Araki urged the superpowers to abolish nuclear weapons. The goal, said Araki, was "no more Hiroshimas." Afterward, 1,500 doves, symbols of peace, were released into cloudy skies...
...with such force that a 5-ft.-deep crater was left in the ground. Ceiling tiles on nearby buildings were peeled off, windows 450 ft. away were shattered, and 34 cars were damaged or destroyed. Captain George Silla was sitting in his office when he saw a bright yellow flash followed by an explosion. "I ducked under my desk," he said. "When I ran out of the building, there were people lying on the ground, crying and bleeding...
...people travel freely from China? That depends on where they live in China. It also helps if they choose an Approved Destination (Australia and New Zealand were among the first countries to be granted this status). In such a poor country, where do people get the money to buy flash cars, clothes and Shanghai apartments? That's complicated. Wealth can be due to luck, corruption or cleverness. China's "peaceful rise" is a brand that's been pitched in the same manner as a multinational mining company would push its green credentials. "Ambassador Fu is out and about and very...
...many of the settlements scheduled to be evacuated, residents are preparing to wage last stands of their own. Nowhere else is there greater potential for an Israeli-on-Israeli confrontation than in Sa-Nur. Israeli security forces fear that this lonely outpost of 38 families could be the nastiest flash point in the evacuation campaign. Dagan says he expects thousands of supporters to make their way to Sa-Nur to resist the army's effort to uproot the settlers. "They want to avoid a disaster for the state of Israel if we leave," Dagan says. While Sharon says separation from...
...scoop that would set off flurries of speculation? Would the Vatican keep the news secret for hours or days until it could straighten out the situation inside the Curia? The Rome bureau chiefs of news wire agencies and television stations lost sleep for fear of missing the historic news flash. Instead, Navarro's simultaneous email to the major news agencies at the same time that Archbishop Leonardo Sandri announced the news to the faithful in St. Peter's Square, worked seamlessly. And so John Paul's final act - dying in public - was as grandiose and universal as his life itself...