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...wasn't your typical road trip. We left Baghdad at 5 a.m. Destination: Basra, Iraq's second largest city and only major port, 340 miles (550 km) to the southeast. The nighttime curfew had just ended when we--eight bodyguards, two interpreters, four journalists and four drivers--piled into our cars as the sun was coming...
...that reason, the Manned Spacecraft Center - better known to the public as Mission Control and now formally renamed the Johnson Space Center - was built in Houston. The port city quickly became a space city, bringing in lots of people, jobs and notoriety. Ultimately, Houstonians would live to see the name of their town become the first word in two of the most evocative quotes of the space age: "Houston, Tranquillity Base here, the Eagle has landed," and "Houston, we've had a problem...
...Shanghai has always prospered as China's gateway to the world. While Beijing may boast millenniums of history, Shanghai owes its prominence to having served as a key trading port for colonial powers. As China accelerated market reforms in the 1990s, the country's first stock exchange was established in Shanghai, and much of the foreign direct investment that flows into China comes through here. Fashion houses, banks and law firms gravitate first to Shanghai, not Beijing. Still, the past couple of years have not been kind to the city. A cancerous corruption scandal, uncovered by the overlords in Beijing...
...Shanghai has always thrived as China's gateway to the world. While Beijing may boast millennia of history, Shanghai owes its prominence to having served as a key trading port for colonial powers. Once China accelerated market reforms in the 1990s, the country's first stock exchange was established in Shanghai, and much of the foreign direct investment that flows into China comes through here. Fashion houses, banks and law firms gravitate first to Shanghai, not Beijing. Still, the last couple of years have not been kind to the city. A cancerous corruption scandal, uncovered by the overlords in Beijing...
...Yemen is also the site of one of al-Qaeda's first, albeit little-known, international operations: an attack on two hotels in the port of Aden in 1992 that was aimed at U.S. troops bound for Somalia. Two people died, but neither was American. Better known was the group's strike in 2000 on the U.S.S. Cole in Aden's harbor, killing 17 U.S. servicemen. Three months before 9/11, Yemeni authorities arrested eight people in a plot to bomb the U.S. embassy in Sana'a. And only last March, there was a failed mortar attack on the embassy compound...