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...what did I send my grandmother? I finally chose a blank card with a not-horribly-offensive flower on the front and escaped from card hell. Then I made a beeline for the nearest stationery store, where I gathered an armful of plain, heavy Crane's notecards and envelopes. As I stood in line with my selections, I felt a weight lift: Never again will I depend on America's greeting card manufacturers...
Hard as it may be to imagine, 20,000 years ago--when the last Ice Age reached its climax--much of North America looked like something out of Africa's teeming Serengeti Plain. Roaming through grasslands and forests were mammoths and mastodons with huge, curved tusks, ground sloths the size of rhinos and bison with sharp-tipped horns that measured more than 6 ft. from tip to tip. Bear-size beavers roamed the forests. Large-headed llamas grazed in rocky meadows. And giant armadillos maneuvered across the landscape like living armored tanks...
...Spoken like the best striped-pants diplomat. And when Rumsfeld met his ministerial counterparts in Brussels, he treated the Europeans to the full measure of persuasion and consultation as the Americans shared videotapes and intelligence data to make the case for national missile defense. But the plain truth is, a defense review that doesn't prioritize the Asian theater won't be worth reading. Asia is where the action is?or where it could be. John Chipman, director of the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London, points out that many key European defense issues haven't changed for most...
...idea of traveling halfway around the world to starve yourself is, however you look at it, a little odd. To make hunger the theme of your vacation and pay good dollars for, well, nothing seems to be bordering on the plain loopy. Yet southern Thailand is becoming a hub for a growing number of professionals whose guilty affluence and/or search for the soulful drive them to seek a week or two of deprivation. On offer is bare-board living: fasting, yoga, meditation and?the ultimate in purification?twice daily cleansing of the colon...
...write myself a note, then drag the Chatpen across the send box. The note appears almost instantaneously on the laptop screen. I draw a flower: on the paper it's in plain black ink, but I use the Chatpen to assign colors to the different lines. I check "send" again: a pretty, colorful flower appears on the laptop screen. O.K., not so pretty: I'm as bad at drawing as writing, but the colors are good. For variation I write on a Post-it note, then on an organizer. It all works perfectly. Regrettably my handwriting doesn't improve: some...