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...astronauts. The country's most famous intergalactic traveler lives in the last house on his lane at the edge of a Siberian forest. Meng Zhaoguo's odyssey began at the Red Flag logging camp in the Manchurian province of Heilongjiang, when he saw a metallic glint thrown off nearby Mount Phoenix. Thinking a helicopter had crashed, he set out to scavenge for scrap. The 36-year-old lumberjack stood gazing at the wreck from across a valley when "Foom! Something hit me square in the forehead and knocked...
...position with a future. Many polls are showing significant public ambivalence about America's commitment to rebuild Iraq--and a clear-cut desire to spend less, not more, money on the occupation. Such sentiments will increase, no doubt, as the occupation slogs on, the casualties and bills mount. The U.S. military dreads another Baghdad summer. By next spring the door will be wide open for a let's-get-out-of-this-mess challenge to the President. Happily, none of the major Democrats chose to walk through that utterly irresponsible door last week, but Dean--who is on the record...
Recall that the business models associated with managerial capitalism were not handed down from Mount Sinai. Clever men—they were white; their women were at home—invented these models at a particular moment in history in order to meet the challenges created by mass consumption. It now falls to the women and men of your generation to reinvent capitalism in ways that meet the needs of today’s new individuals. Our era of disruptive capitalism will create opportunities for outsiders, mavericks and visionaries. The time is ripe for leadership from a new generation willing...
...intelligence. And there's no shortage of new recruits these days from throughout the Muslim world, ready to sacrifice themselves to harm the U.S. Some of the attacks over the past two years appear to have been centrally coordinated across national borders - the most difficult type of operation to mount under the new security conditions - but others appear to have been local initiatives by al-Qaeda associates acting on fire-at-will proclamations of the sort broadcast by al-Jazeera on Wednesday. Al-Qaeda has not simply decentralized its structure, analysts have noted, it has begun to assume the form...
...history books. "We want to turn this beautiful Himalayan country into an invincible red fort and a shining trench of world proletariat revolution," declared Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai before the rebels took to the hills in 1996. "We are sure we will hoist the hammer and sickle atop Mount Everest...