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The phrase apres-ski conjures up crowded bars, the sudden, fierce glow of a shot of schnapps, voices straining over blaring music and melting ice puddling around snow boots. But in the tiny village of St. Christoph, 1,800 m up in Austria's famed Arlberg skiing region, the family...
If not for Hitler, it might still be, but his aggression drove scientists out of Europe, and the desperate need to defeat him galvanized the U.S. and Britain into pouring money into defense research, creating powerful new technologies--radar, sonar, the atom bomb. U.S. leaders learned that pure research like...
What worries him now is the waiver he needs to get into the Army with a prosthetic leg. Failing that, he might return to Texas, learn some Spanish and try for a border-patrol job. There is no girlfriend in his life. "With this chubby Irish mug?" he asks, noting...
Fashion statements can be risky, as antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan, below, and a Congressman's support-the-troops wife learned last week when they got booted from the Capitol for sporting political T shirts. Here's a look at other wearable agendas.
The thing about the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos is this: you never get time to think. The crush of business leaders, politicians, scientists, thinkers and celebrity do-gooders is so great, the cornucopia of temptations on display so salivating, that you can't quite get...