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...make the most of the conundrum. It had seemed a good idea at the time: needing to fly back to California from Asia after a business trip, just before flying off to Asia from California on another trip, I would spend as little time as possible on the ground so I wouldn't have to change my body clock. The upshot, however, on the calendar, is that I wake up one Sunday in Bali and find myself on Monday in Sydney. On Tuesday (as it seems to me) I'm in California. On Thursday...
...presidential politics since 1936, when he got into trouble for pasting Alf Landon signs on the door of his school. This time Sheldon is supporting Romney. "I think he's been married three times," he said of Giuliani. "That's gonna hurt him here." And in a state where ground organization is everything, Giuliani's starstruck audiences seemed to include few G.O.P. stalwarts. Some in the crowd I talked to hadn't even decided whether, come January, they would be caucusing with the Republicans or the Democrats...
...reasons for what Giuliani calls his "renewed emphasis on Iowa" are rooted partly in opportunity and partly in necessity. Former Senator Fred Thompson's anticipated entry in the race could further divide the unsettled conservative base. Meanwhile, John McCain's troubles could put some of his supporters and ground organization into play. In Mason City, making a none-too-subtle pitch for their affection, Giuliani pronounced himself a "big admirer" of the Arizona Senator and added, "If I were not running, I'd be supporting him." The new early-state focus is also a defensive move. The latest polls show...
...most of the air we breathe - whether in our homes, our cars or our offices - is indoors," says Weschler. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 90% of our time is spent indoors. According to Weschler, indoor pollution either seeps in from outside (such as particulate matter from car exhaust, ground-level ozone and noxious gases, like sulfur dioxide, which comes from fuel combustion and factories) or originates inside (tobacco smoke, cooking gas, vapors from paint). In general, concentrations of volatile organic compounds, like cleaning agents and pesticides, can sometimes be 10 times higher indoors than outdoors, says Weschler. With long...
...Ziqi and a group of skateboarders weaving and flying around an open square in Beijing. Ma sets himself apart from the crowd, not only by his choice of wheels - he is the lone BMX rider - but by his skills. He pulls long wheelies, his front wheel far off the ground as he arcs around the rows of large flowerpots. He hops his bike, pivots it around, then starts riding again, standing up on the pedals and lazily making circles around the square, his ears filled with punk rock blasting through his headphones...