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...King," he says now. "I want Americans to know that our revolution is about their ideals." For its part, the Bush Administration is now warning trigger-happy Venezuelan generals that it won't recognize any unconstitutional overthrow of Chavez. The White House "wouldn't be doing that if it hadn't decided that we have to deal with this guy," says a U.S. official in Latin America. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Roy Chaderton Matos, concurs: "Our channels of communication [with the U.S.] are suddenly multiplying now." So much so that Venezuela, which already exports 1.54 million...
...after I put my napkin down at breakfast, I heard that my adoptive mother, now widowed, was ill and lonely. I sighed and made contact with her. We never forgave each other. Still, I'm glad I did it. It may seem very cynical of me, but if I hadn't, I never would have written Three Tall Women. That play was the beginning of a particularly fertile decade for me that produced The Play About the Baby and The Goat, among other things. And it's not over yet. --As told to Francine Russo
...region of the brain, meaning that at least one clean circuit was intact. With a little coaxing, Reeve brought more circuits online, learning to move other hand joints, wiggle his toes and push back when resistance was applied to his feet. Though he had noticed some sensation returning, he hadn't realized how much. A standard test with a cotton ball and a safety pin revealed that he was sensitive to a pinprick over 22% of his body and to a light touch over...
...China's more realistic strategy grew out of the 1991 Gulf War. Back then, its military doctrine, "People's War," hadn't changed since the Korean conflict, when it sought to drown U.S. forces in human waves of troops. China's top brass was stunned by the power of the U.S. air campaign and by cnn clips of smart bombs diving through ventilator shafts. In response, they shaved a million men off their army, and embarked on a modernization campaign. But they drew another lesson too: that Iraq had erred by not attacking U.S. forces as they arrived...
...first place, uncovering and dismantling the entire store of Saddam's arsenal is an almost impossible task. During the last inspections, Iraqi officials deceived, obstructed and harassed U.N. monitors, who departed in 1998 knowing Iraq had unconventional weapons they hadn't found. Anti-Iraq hawks have little confidence that Hans Blix, current chief of the U.N.'s inspection team, would have any greater success. When Blix ran the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iraq secretly developed nuclear weapons while supposedly under IAEA oversight...