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...ignoring the pleas of his friends stepped forward and said he could help. He was taken to a map where he pointed to a position and said, "They are there now, 20 of them and vehicles." A helicopter was sent to investigate and reported military vehicles camouflaged in a yard. Within minutes artillery and rocket fire rained in on the position, and for hours afterwards ammunition from a cache in the area continued to explode. The man returned to his friends who were now all smiles...
...Gulf War II than we did of all of Gulf War I. The best known TV scoop of the 1991 war was essentially radio: CNN's Bernard Shaw, Peter Arnett and John Holliman describing the air attack on an audio line while the network broadcast their photographs over a map of Iraq. In sheer visual terms, last week's telecasts--with digital-age 3D animations, live interviews from the middle of an invasion and space-agey dispatches by videophone--were to their predecessor as Grand Theft Auto is to Pong...
...route to Iraq was therefore at least in part Blair's policy. The final, desperate attempt to win unanimity on the Security Council--stymied in the end by France--was Blair's project. The announcement before the initiation of the Iraq war that Washington would soon endorse the "road map" to Israeli-Palestinian peace had Blair's fingerprints all over it. But in some ways, this understates Blair's broader impact. For a whole section of centrist and liberal opinion in America, Blair's endorsement of regime change in Baghdad helped solidify support for war, especially among influential elites...
Even in uncertain times, there are days that offer hope for humankind's future. On June 26, 2000, a map of the human genome was announced. We can only begin to imagine what pivotal developments will emerge from it over the next 80 years. But that will be for future generations of editors to judge. In the meantime, join us next week for a fascinating album looking back on what happened on 80 days that shaped our world...
...those looking to invest overseas, Russia is safer than ever. But Botswana is safer yet. At least that's the conclusion of AON, the global insurance-and-risk-management firm, which for the first time is offering its Global Credit and Political Risk map to the public, at aon.com/us/politicalrisk The 2-ft. by 3-ft. map assigns a color to each country that denotes its overall risk of economic downturn, political violence and government intervention in private business. The five levels of risk range from green (low risk) to orange (very high risk). AON considers, among other things...