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...from 19,000 last September. And a little noticed incident on April 8, involving a Dutch KLM 747 flight from Amsterdam to Mexico City, may result in the list being used even more aggressively. The plane was forbidden by American authorities to enter U.S. airspace because the Department of Homeland Security discovered after the flight had taken off that two of its passengers were on the no-fly list. According to government sources, the two were Saudi men who had undergone pilot training with Sept. 11 hijacker Hani Hanjour. The flight was turned back and landed in London, where...
...Chen Yifei knew that others could attract money and investment to China. What he wanted to do was far greater: bring beauty back to his homeland. The painter turned style entrepreneur, who died on April 10 at 59, began his mission rather unpromisingly: after graduating from Shanghai's premier art institute in 1965, he spent a decade monotonously painting propaganda art and portraits of Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution. But after migrating to the U.S. in 1982, Chen found his hyper-realist paintings of pastoral scenes and flute-playing maidens a hit with foreign collectors, who snapped...
...China's largest. Collectively, Chen's enterprises earned $200 million last year and brought an East-meets-West style to Chinese citizens caught up in the country's extraordinary economic boom. Along the way, of course, the exuberant, cigar-chomping Chen attracted plenty of money and investment to his homeland. But he succeeded, too, in his larger goal: beauty had returned to China...
...Jima had cost more American casualties than D-day; on Okinawa, 79,000 U.S. soldiers were killed or wounded. As the U.S. readied plans to invade the main islands, Japan was deploying up to 2 million soldiers and additional millions of "auxiliaries" who were clearly prepared to defend their homeland to the death. It was easy to believe estimates that an invasion would result in as many as a million American casualties, plus many more Japanese. The Bomb offered the chance of ending the war and saving lives...
During a panel featuring representatives from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a handful of protestors staged a mock deportation of an ethnic minority student, deliberately coughed to disrupt the speakers, and in one instance induced vomiting to demonstrate disgust for the actions...