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...seething with a form of energy that would act just like Einstein's disowned antigravity. Problem was, this force would have been so powerful that it would have blown the universe apart before atoms could form, let alone galaxies--which it clearly did not. "The value particle physicists predict for the cosmological constant," admits Chicago's Turner, "is the most embarrassing number in physics...
...Alas, kawaii is famously mercurial. Despite hiring young designers, listening to customers and developing relationships with magazines, no company can entirely predict when teen tastes may change. Sometimes girls want?NOW!?what a famous singer wears in her new video. (Ayumi Hamasaki's flower pins, for instance.) But trendy Tokyo girls soon tire of being copied by their country bumpkin cousins in Saitama and Okayama and start looking for newer, more kawaii looks to sport?almost as soon as they've attached those pins to their lapels. That creates a hothouse environment where a brand can go from unknown...
...Politicians have followed along in this sea-change. They always predict victory, even when they're down 20 points in the polls. They tell you once and then tell you again and again why they are the better candidate. This is something that would have been very foreign to Lincoln, and even to John Kennedy. It was bad manners as well as bad politics to be over-confident and boastful...
...Putin tries never to mention Chechnya. Jokesters, though, are having a field day. Variations on his famous threat-"sign on toilet door: do not enter, rubbing out terrorists. Signed Putin"-are among the barbs. Government officials, though, neither joke nor predict a swift victory. When Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov is asked how long the conflict will last, he answers with a question of his own. "How long did it take to eliminate the Lithuanian partisans after World War II?" The analogy is surprising-the Lithuanian "forest brothers" are now heroes in their homeland. And the answer is not encouraging...
...Massimo Calabresi: One key difference we can predict is that the Bush administration will be a lot harder on provisions for verification of any missile non-proliferation deal reached with the North Korea. And of course, depending on North Korea's response, that may reduce the chances of success in concluding an agreement. This decision certainly bolsters the view that the Bush administration came into office with an almost knee-jerk rejection of the policies of the Clinton administration, but now that they're faced with the realities of the tough and complex challenges around the world, they're coming...