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...Pentagon couldn't decide who controlled the new program or who should pay for it--though each craft cost only $1 million. While the new UAV was being rapidly developed at a site in the southwestern U.S., the CIA opposed using the old one for pure surveillance because it feared al-Qaeda might see it. "Once we were going to arm the thing," says a senior U.S. intelligence official, "we didn't want to expose the capability by just having it fly overhead and spot a bunch of guys we couldn't do anything about." Clarke and his supporters were...
Bollywood movies, those Indian musical dramas with their unabashed displays of pure feeling, represent something that has been lost in American film [SHOW BUSINESS, July 22]. In the days of silent movies, lovers had to express what they felt in their hearts solely through their eyes and facial expressions. From the 1970s on, a no-acting-please mentality in film has cramped expression of the higher aspects of love. The displays of feeling and sometimes declamatory dramatic style in Indian films may make us squirm and snigger, but maybe we should question our own dysfunction. Perhaps Indian film can inspire...
DIVINE DESTINATION On top of Mount Ramelau, East Timor's highest mountain, stands a pure white statue, more than three meters high, of the Virgin Mary, her arms outstretched and her face wearing an expression of sublime understanding. To reach her is a feat of endurance. But the rewards can border on the transcendent. The first time I saw her, enveloped in the milky mist that swirled around the summit, I had so many endorphins coursing through my brain that I genuinely believed she understood my pain, could feel the fire in my calves, the thump in my chest...
...some Nashville conservatives have gone from Earle indifference to rage over his song John Walker's Blues, which is on his upcoming album, Jerusalem. Written from the perspective of the so-called American Taliban, the lyrics include "We came to fight the jihad/ And our hearts were pure and strong." Earle said he doesn't "condone what [Walker] did." But a Nashville radio commentator likened Earle to Jane Fonda in her "Hanoi Jane" days. Which means we should look forward to seeing Earle starring in aerobics videos...
...disregard the products' health risks. Fenfluramine is banned in Japan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and China, but products containing it can still be found on store shelves in many of those countries. Last week in Shenzhen, shoppers could easily find a supplement called Fenfluramini?each 20-milligram tablet contains pure fenfluramine hydrochloride. "It's pretty strong stuff," says the sole attendant at a closet-size drug shop in the city's sprawling Luohu Plaza. "You should buy two boxes to get the fuller effect...