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...AEROSPACE 4 hours Time it will take to fly from London to Sydney on a space plane being developed by Europe's EADS Astrium $308,200 Estimated cost per ticket aboard the proposed four-passenger craft. The 10,600-mile (17,000 km) journey currently takes more than 21 hours and costs about...
Pico Iyer, one of the world's premier prose stylists, has been following the journey of the Dalai Lama since he was a tiny child. In 1960, when Pico was 3 years old, his father visited in India with the newly exiled Dalai Lama and brought back a picture of the shy 24-year-old for his son. That picture sat on Pico's desk for 30 years, until 1990, when a fire roared through his family's house, wiping out everything including the photo and bringing home to him the Buddhist idea of the impermanence of life...
...Pico offers the definitive portrait of His Holiness in this week's cover story, which is adapted from his new book, The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. "Over the years," Pico says, "I've been struck by how practically he's adapted his message to the times and the worldwide audience. He's thought about his positions more deeply and more rigorously than anyone I've ever...
...place the device. They call it the Najadia, a short variation on the long name of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "My group and I believe honestly in fighting the Americans - and getting financial benefit out of it," says Hussein Ali, an Iraqi Shi'ite guerrilla who recounted a journey to Iran for training in explosives in an interview with TIME. "We became very professional in planting and using the mine called BMZ2, which is a Russian mine modified in Iran for use against the American armor...
...control of Tibet ahead of the Beijing Olympics, the reality of regional geo-politics quickly intruded. Fearing the march would damage strengthening ties between Delhi and Beijing, Indian officials banned the protesters from leaving the Kangra district in which Dharmsala sits. With the marchers seemingly intent on making the journey in spite of the ban, police yesterday arrested about 100 people and a local court ordered that they be held for 14 days. "India does not permit Tibetans to engage in anti-China political activities in India," said Ministry of External Affairs spokesman Navtej Sarna in a statement posted Thursday...