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...rooms, pools and spacious courtyards. She was both queen and goddess, serving as a high priest at religious ceremonies and standing by her husband at the Window of Appearances. Yet the culture whose pyramids, mummies and dazzling burial chambers set the ancient standards for funerary grandeur appears to have forgotten Nefertiti. The glamorous young queen died more than 3,300 years ago, and sometime thereafter her body and all the accoutrements of her entombment disappeared without a trace...
American corporations seem to have forgotten a lesson of history. Henry Ford revolutionized business by creating customers out of his own work force. Today's bottom-lining CEOs outsource work to whichever country is paying workers the least. The U.S. cannot employ protectionism for fear of world trade sanctions. But in this case, citizens have more power than government. What this country needs is an "American content" rule requiring every product sold in the U.S. to state the percentage of domestic manufacture, just as food products provide nutritional information. The American consumer needs a way to police the shortsighted avarice...
...Tibet movement, admits that from a distance even he imagined a "promised, damaged land." So he went to Tibet in 1999 "to see it unmediated by the versions or hopes of others." The result is an honest, informed and extremely well written account. French traveled into the countryside, visiting forgotten monasteries, squalid towns and simple, nomad villages. He met people still bravely resisting China's 1950 invasion, risking dreaded prisons famed for torture. He encountered many Tibetans?often angry and defensive?who had chosen to join the system to survive...
...country's police. The fear is that the shift in responsibilities, as well as efforts to make the NIS more accountable, will make the agency a toothless tiger?giving freer rein to the thousands of North Korean agents believed to be operating in the South. "We seem to have forgotten that North Korea is communist and is still eager to reunify the two Koreas under communism," says lawmaker Hahm Seung Heui, a member of the bipartisan National Assembly's Intelligence Committee...
...China's prosecutor's office, last year published a review of her case in which doctors were warned not to comply with police seeking expedient ways of incarcerating undesirables. "Medical staff are an essential link in the chain of evil that produces these abuses, and this should not be forgotten when allocating blame and punishment," the review stated. So far, no punishment has been allocated. Late last month, the World Psychiatric Association took China to task in an unusual statement calling on the country to allow international experts to investigate allegations that psychiatry is used as a political tool...