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The Shame of Abu Ghraib Your report on the psychological and physical mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib by U.S. soldiers came as a great shock and exploded the myth that we live in a civilized world [May 17]. If the U.S. attacked Iraq to rescue its people from the...
The concern helps account for a surge in enrollment in children's etiquette classes and is transforming the moribund manners trade. "I've been in this business for over 40 years, and I've never seen anything like the current hunger for this information," says Dorothea Johnson, who runs the...
But the global media business, like politics, makes for strange bedfellows. Nowadays, News Corp. and CCTV International are partners of sorts, bound by their mutual desire to reach more viewers. Three years ago, Beijing opened its heavily restricted TV market a crack and granted News Corp. permission to offer its...
There was an important reason to make such efforts: by recording the moments a transit began and ended from different vantage points on Earth, astronomers could use trigonometry to precisely calculate the distance from Earth to the sun. That was easier in theory than in practice, though, and nowadays astronomers...
It challenges the imagination to believe that anything good could come out of such an awful time in Iraq. But as U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi tries to build a interim government that can help deliver the country from the chaos of Baghdad, the rubble of Fallujah and the gruesome images...