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...today, it doesn't have the hardware. That may be changing. Last week, Lee Wen-chung, chairman of the defense committee in Taiwan's legislature, disclosed that the island was developing missiles that could reach Chinese cities. "Taiwan has the technology and capability to develop a medium-range missile program, which is supported by a secret government budget," Lee told TIME. "We've entered the test-fire phase and may be able to begin mass production in two to five years." In a statement last month, Premier Yu Shyi-kun made it clear that Taiwan would use the missiles...
...world's most overpopulated wasteland. It seemed only fitting, after all, to take a presidential-style "working vacation" when filing a column about travel comix. Though comix' combination of art and narrative is ideally suited to travel books, only a handful have appeared, probably as a result of the medium's longtime marginalization. Suddenly, though, a group of works - two books and one comix series - have appeared with travel as the central theme. By traipsing through them, we can map out the route to the golden spires and around the crocodile pits of this emerging sub-genre...
...America Coming Together), groups of all sizes and flavors have been urging young people to sign up to vote for months. Their novel use of the Internet to assist youth in voter registration is an especially welcome technique, as it allows young people to employ a convenient and familiar medium to register. We hope that these organizations continue their mission past the voter registration deadlines to Election Day by urging and assisting registered voters to actually get to the ballot...
...family who was roasting some kebabs for my friends and me that I was from Harvard. A few minutes later, it seemed like the whole town had emptied out to meet me. Last spring break in Nicaragua, my Harvard Habitat for Humanity group made the rounds in Rivas, a medium-sized city in the south-east of the country. The response I got never varied: “From Harvard? Smart...
...repeats them endlessly, circumscribing our understanding of world events in narrow ways. The word “media” itself is a pervasive expression that cheats us of a better conceptualization of its object, particularly important as our source of information about the world. Originally the plural of medium, Latin simply for middle, mean, “media” in its current usage is specifically derived from the expression mass medium, to define phenomena such as radio, television and newspapers. A sentence beginning with “the media,” then, is a sloppy generalization about...