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...fought. "What matters really is all that we have in common in the present and for the future," he said. In fact they continue to have profound disagreements. Chirac distrusts American power, especially as exercised by George W. Bush, and wants to build up Europe as "an independent pole" in world affairs. Blair has denounced that impulse as "the most dangerous game of international politics I know." In a major foreign policy speech last week, he stressed keeping the Atlantic alliance vibrant, using Britain as a go-between if necessary: "Call it a bridge, a two-lane motorway, a pivot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worldwatch | 11/21/2004 | See Source »

...that the area matches many of the details of the site given by Plato. OCTOBER Maverick Russian astrophysicist Alexander Chechelnitsky asserted that the lost continent was situated in Alaska's Yukon River valley, and that the change in the earth's axis - and the repositioning of the North Pole - brought about its cataclysmic end. Refreshingly undogmatic for an Atlantis hunter, he is quoted as saying: "I don't have any concrete scientific proof for my theory. But I believe in it." JUNE German physicist Rainer Kühne argued - based on satellite images that he says show ancient ruins - that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raising A Legend | 11/21/2004 | See Source »

...structure, gripping the cloth and standing there with arms akimbo, feeling my body share the tension of the canvas as I actively gave form to the object. Perhaps the closest I can come to describing it is to say that I felt a little like I imagine a tent pole might feel—assuming that the pole is vaguely aware that it looks ridiculous but still finds a kind of dumb self-satisfaction in holding the tent...

Author: By Julian M. Rose, THE ANGEL OF POST-MODERNISM | Title: ‘Dependent Objects’ at the Busch-Resinger | 10/15/2004 | See Source »

...ocean pen, where she remained for 25 days, monitored by a team of marine biologists and released only after she began eating and appeared to have fully recovered. The strategy seems to have worked: on her first day in the tank, the shark snatched salmon fillets from a pole and swam calmly among the other sharks and sea creatures in the tank. Since then, she has continued to thrive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROTECTING A PREDATOR | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...decisive moment came finally two years later, the summer after freshman year. “They looked like they’d been pole-axed,” Heller said...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Spouse | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

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