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...American public, meanwhile, hears only dissonant murmurs of dissent and is left confused and ill informed. Bush’s rhetorical tyranny jeopardizes our national security as much as the threats that give it shape. Only after we depose that rhetoric and reopen vigorous debate can we properly address the complex Iraqi threat—without the impetuous sacrifice of thousands of lives...
...human industry, from toys to tanks. And even professional investors are cautious. "True venture capitalists are not investing. They are watching," says Glenn Fishbine, author of The Investor's Guide to Nanotechnology and Micromachines. Only a handful of "pure play" nanotech stocks exist, including Nanophase Technologies, in Romeoville, Ill., which makes nanoscale powders, among them zinc oxide particles for sunscreen that won't turn lifeguards' noses white. Still, investors in behemoths such as Intel, Samsung and Dupont have been indirectly funding nanotech development for years...
...TIME: Why did you write this book? Zhang: After I'd made it to America, I became very ill. The doctor diagnosed me with cancer. I felt I should get this story written down as something to leave behind for my daughter. After her father is dead, how else would she know what he did at Tiananmen Square?how else would she know why we went there ... I was in the hospital for a year in the U.S. and a second year in Taiwan, and it was during this time that I wrote the book. And then I started...
...compensating Palestinian refugees. All of these conditions, which accord with U.N. Security Council resolutions and the Fourth Geneva Convention, are uncontroversial in most of the world and have considerable support in Israel itself. Here in the United States, however, this petition has elicited a surprising amount of controversy and ill will. Most recently, University President Lawrence H. Summers has condemned the initiative as fostering anti-Semitism. Here we comment on our petition and reply to Summers...
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