Word: ironization
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...Clinton's trip last week to India was representative of lame-duck foreign policy pursued by the second-term president, the importance of the journey should not be dismissed. The last time an American president visited India was 1978, when socialist leader Indira Gandhi ruled the country with an iron fist. Just one year after President Carter visited, Gandhi subverted the constitution and rigged national elections, throwing the Indian political system into turmoil and leading the country into a decade of fractious ethnic and religious tensions...
...country," says Sergei Stepashin, the Prime Minister dismissed in Putin's favor when he looked too soft to satisfy Yeltsin's demands. "Putin knew we had no alternative. Otherwise we'd have lost all authority in the country." Suddenly the gray-suited bureaucrat wore tough-guy garb, displaying the iron hand that Russians craved. When Putin coarsely proclaimed that his army would "wipe the terrorists out wherever we find them, even if they are sitting on the toilet," Russians loved it, and his popularity shot...
Karl Marx said religion was "the opium of the people," but the real opium is ignorance. By trying to choke the spread of the Internet in China [WORLD, Feb. 28], the Communist Party is stopping the spread of knowledge. Despite their attempts, communist leaders will find that China's Iron Curtain will eventually break down under the forces of freedom. TURHAN SARWAR, AGE 15 Kenner...
...discovery of a set of chemical reactions using iron and platinum that can tame magnetic particles so minute that they are measured in terms of atoms. These kinds of chemical reactions are thought necessary to facilitate the mass fabrication of such precise materials. The breakthrough also nuzzles closer to a theoretical limitation in the field of magnetics, a physical point at which magnetic particles are too small and dense to hold a charge...
...like the present squared than anything remarkably new. Whatever is going to make the future feel like the future probably hasn't even been thought of yet, and that must be why such a diverse group of writers as you assembled couldn't seem to move beyond the conceptual iron maiden of the present. Maybe it would be better to stop trying to predict the future and just start living it. PETER VERTES Cleveland, Ohio...