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Nearly a month later, on Oct. 7, the day U.S. warplanes began bombing Afghanistan, Perez and 1,000 fellow soldiers left Fort Drum for a Soviet-era air base outside the town of Khanabad, Uzbekistan, 90 miles north of the Afghan frontier. Their mission was simple but dull: Secure the airfield. "God, this can't go on for six months," Perez said to himself during one of his 12-hour shifts patrolling the earthen berms that encircle the base. "Something's got to happen...
...August begins and hotels from Menton to Théoule proclaim they are complet (full). The history of Nice, affectionately charted by Robert Kanigel in High Season in Nice (Little, Brown; 309 pages), effectively mirrors the history of tourism. From small beginnings as a Greek fishing village and Roman frontier outpost, the town developed slowly until the late 18th century, when the continent, for a change, was at peace and wealthy Europeans started to travel in search of different art, culture - and weather. The following century saw Nice inundated with French, English and Russian aristocrats. In La Belle Epoque Nice...
...late summer night in a railyard in Sukhbaatar—or Sukhe Batora as the Russians would have it—and it was a lonely, remote place. Nestled delicately somewhere between Siberia and the middle of nowhere, it is a desolate border town astride the Russian-Mongolian frontier and is the main point of crossing for all trains travelling on this particular branch of the sprawling Trans-Siberian network. It is the first, or last (or, in my case, both) place land travelers encounter when passing to or through Mongolia...
...last month, tearing through the badlands along the Afghan border with four heavily armed al-Qaeda members beside him, Niazi may have sensed he was riding to his death. Niazi had spent weeks befriending Uzbek al-Qaeda fighters, posing as a smuggler who could take them safely into the frontier city of Peshawar. Now he had lured the Uzbeks into the trap. He would drive them into an ambush in which Pakistani police would capture al-Qaeda fighters alive. From there they would be flown away from the nearby Kohat army base to be interrogated by American spooks...
This central problem with biotechnology (and more specifically, pharmaceuticals, where the payoffs are the biggest) has kept it a wild and unpredictable frontier. The journal Nature reported earlier this month that biotechnology stocks have collectively lost two-thirds of their value in the past two years. The University of California at San Francisco, which has forged close ties with the biotech industry in California, has seen collaborations with companies for research drop by nearly half from 2000. Such stark figures should give Summers pause before he starts intertwining Harvard research with the work of biotech companies. Indeed, Harvard has always...