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...memoir-cum-travelogue about a 2002 trip to explore his roots in Ghana. To his shame and disgust, he found that one of his ancestors was a slave trader, a discovery that both shook his world and, paradoxically, freed him from it. "To be honest," he acknowledges quietly, "I haven't really come to terms with it. It's a very salient daily reminder of the fact that there's no such thing as black and white, that everything we do is a kind of mixing up. Everything we do is about contradictions, really." Those contradictions, he thinks, define...
...Apache helicopter. Economist Jeffrey Sachs, head of the U.N. Millennium Project to reduce global poverty, hunger and disease, questioned Wolfowitz's lack of economic and banking experience. "I have looked for evidence of Mr. Wolfowitz having development goals - I have tried to find it in his speeches, and I haven't been able to," Sachs has said. But Wolfowitz is already winning over the skeptics. The former academic has always been known for his soft-spoken, professorial style; it's his policy prescriptions - such as calling for regime change in Iraq as far back as the early 1990s - that invite...
China's leaders, ever conscious of history, argue that stability must come first. "If you haven't been through the Cultural Revolution, you don't know what human rights means," says Sun Chao, a Shanghai official who is pushing for transparent government. "In my compound, people were jumping off the rooftops." Given that legacy, Sun goes on, "China is developing human rights faster than any country in the world." Taiwan and South Korea, of course, survived for decades as dictatorships even as they opened up their economies. But as more Chinese like Wang start demanding their rights, the government...
...month courtship with all the requisite A-lister ups and downs, TOM CRUISE, 42, proposed to Batman Begins starlet KATIE HOLMES, 26. To make it official, they held a joint press conference, which fortified romantics and skeptics alike. "It was early this morning at the Eiffel Tower, so I haven't slept at all," said Cruise, who has deflected speculation that the relationship is a publicity stunt. The future Mrs. Cruise the Third, who had posters of her fiancé on her wall as a girl, simply blushed and smiled. Clearly, both actors have committed to their new roles...
...method is highly unorthodox. "People could get cancer from the vaccine," says Klaus Stohr, head of the WHO's global influenza program. Even more ominous, the developers say they've followed international procedures to ensure that the virus hasn't mutated in the making of the vaccine, but they haven't opened all their records or allowed an inspection of their labs. The chances of mutations are slim, says Robin Robinson, an epidemiologist and influenza expert at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, but the Vietnamese method "may have provided a means for emergence of mutated H5N1 viruses...