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...brief time on that bright, blue September morning, it seemed that the hidden vulnerability of the American colossus had been laid bare. The desperate decisions of some World Trade Center employees to leap to their deaths rather than burn in the flames, the heartrending phone calls of the doomed passengers on the fateful flights, the apocalyptic tsunami of dust that engulfed lower Manhattan as the Twin Towers imploded and fell--this was America's waking nightmare...
...anything, that's an understatement. The first galaxies to emerge from the blackness of the early universe can't be studied in detail until telescope technology makes another great leap. But Ellis and Stark may have got a glimpse--and given theorists the first hard evidence--of that unimaginably distant time when the cosmos left infancy behind and entered the formative childhood that led, eventually, to our sun and the tiny blue planet that circles it. [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] Illuminating a Dark Age How the universe grew from a murky soup...
...always a bit of a joke - "A thousand flies can't be wrong, sir," was Scott's fond quip - its refitted kitchen can now produce a decent crab risotto or duck breast as part of a two-course meal that costs $42. On top of ticket prices that leap from $45 to $85 for the likes of Wynton Marsalis, free jazz this ain't. But when the music starts, cynicism melts before the club's enduring charms: the spellbinding intimacy of the space, the whisper-perfect acoustics, and of course a very decent piano...
...Those words may have globe-rattling implications. If Shenzhen can leap from assembling basic products with low-wage, poorly skilled labor to nurturing the innovations of lavishly paid talent, it could blaze a trail for the rest of corporate China, which must increasingly develop its own brands, designs and technology to rival those of America, Japan and Europe. It would not be the first time Shenzhen has led the way. The city, located in southern China's Pearl River Delta, has been at the forefront of China's free-market reforms for 25 years. In 1979, late Chinese leader Deng...
...years it watched studio partners reap billions while the company took home only a small percentage of movie profits, especially on DVDs. "If we wanted to control our own destiny, we'd have to make our own movies," says Michael Helfant, president of Marvel Studios. That was a leap Marvel's risk-averse board was loath to make on its own dime...