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...track of everything in the world at once--steaming rain forests in Bolivia, factories in Mexico belching smoke, the jet stream, the Gulf Stream, the works. What's more, they dared to build it. On March 11, 2002, when they turned it on, the engineers did something no mere mortal had ever done before: they created the Earth...
...didn't Jiang choose a graceful, statesmanlike exit? It's not that Jiang and Hu, China's Vice President, are mortal enemies. They've worked together for 10 years and are thought to share a similar vision of China's future. After the congress Hu vowed to carry on Jiang's economic liberalization policies and uphold the Theory of the Three Represents, Jiang's doctrinal legacy that among other points calls for the Party to embrace once-shunned entrepreneurs. Arthur Waldron, a China specialist at the University of Pennsylvania, suggests Jiang is hanging on simply because he isn't ready...
Though Dartmouth was missing a whole forward line, it still had its blueliners and top goalkeeper. Dartmouth netminder Amy Ferguson, who held the 2000 Harvard team to two goals as a freshman and the 2001 Harvard team to one goal as a sophomore, was made to look shockingly mortal by the Crimson’s rapid-fire attack...
...never a good idea for a regime based on fear. Power, after all, is less a thing than it is a relationship: He runs Iraq, in no small part, because people think he runs Iraq. Anything that signals limits on his ability to enforce his will may be a mortal danger to the Iraqi dictator, which is why submitting to the new arms inspections is far from easy even if Saddam could be relatively sure the inspectors won't find anything...
...probe into the tragedy continues. Last week, police released sketches of three possible suspects and detained one, an Indonesian man with shoulder-length hair, for questioning. And the bomb site is now being cleared in advance of a traditional ritual prescribed to spiritually cleanse the island after a mortal enemy attack. Priests plan to slaughter a deer, a bull, a cow, a goat, a turtle, a pig, a white swan, a red swan and a black dog with a black tongue, and each household on the island will erect bamboo poles laden with fruits, flowers and palm fronds. Rituals...