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...months, border battles had broken out almost daily between troops of the two nations. The conflict that finally erupted last week along the 1,300-mile (2,100-km) frontier was plainly big enough to raise the specter of a major conflagration on the subcontinent. The presence of Indian troops on Pakistan's soil escalated the dispute to the point where full-scale war could erupt at any moment ... India's power is far superior to Pakistan ('s). Its forces (980,000) outnumber Pakistan's (392,000) by more than 2 to 1; its air and naval capacity is also...
...next frontier? Wireless. Palm Pilot users can already use PayPal and their units' infrared technology to "beam" each other cash. And with Web-enabled cell phones, PayPal can be used to make payments remotely. That means in the future, when you go shopping or eat out, instead of reaching for your wallet, you may reach for your cell phone--and an online-payment service. Ultimately, it may be your cash--as much as your frantic hunts for first-class postage--that PayPal and Billpoint render obsolete...
...from Harvard in 1938, Schlesinger went to Cambridge University on a Henry Fellowship just as Chamberlain was disgracing himself at Munich. He met Harold Laski but argued with the radical political scientist about his soft views on the Soviet Union. At the opening of a play called On the Frontier, the authors, Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden, sat directly in front of Schlesinger--Auden scribbling notes to Isherwood (which Isherwood could not read in the dark) and furiously smoking Camels, while John Maynard Keynes stared down impassively from a balcony...
...cylinders, panels, nodes and antennae known as the International Space Station had orbited the Earth in the cold of space waiting for a crew. On Thursday November 2, that crew arrived - two Russians and their American commander - aboard a Russian Soyuz space capsule, ready to claim the high frontier for all mankind, and for all time...
...from Harvard in 1938, Schlesinger went to Cambridge University on a Henry Fellowship just as Chamberlain was disgracing himself at Munich. He met Harold Laski but argued with the radical political scientist about his soft views on the Soviet Union. At the opening of a play called "On the Frontier," the authors, Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden, sat directly in front of Schlesinger - Auden scribbling notes to Isherwood (which Isherwood could not read in the dark) and furiously smoking Camels, while John Maynard Keynes stared down impassively from a balcony...