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...autocracy can be. But even Beijing's critics expressed admiration for China's swift response to the quake. Some 120,000 soldiers and paramilitary troops were deployed along with thousands of vehicles and aircraft, and China gracefully accepted foreign aid, including rescue teams from Taiwan, Singapore and even old rival Japan. Some of China's most xenophobic bloggers expressed astonishment at the sympathy shown for their country by the rest of the world, the donations of cash and goods and personnel. The outpouring of international goodwill "has changed everything," says a Western diplomat based in Beijing - even rekindling the guttering...
...mega-projects across Alberta's oil sands rival some of humankind's greatest engineering achievements, including the pyramids of Giza and the Great Wall of China. After thousands of years, those ancient projects still bear witness to history. Conservative estimates predict the tar sands will give out in just 70 years. Their legacy to Canada is yet to be written, but it may be a great deal bigger than expectations. With new deposits still being found and technologies improving, the sands could produce for a couple of hundred years more. Forget Venezuela. Canada may become the new Saudi Arabia...
...prickly son of Man o' War rarely saw a starting gate he liked to enter, but once he exited, he usually won. A year after the Triple Crown, he lost a head-to-head race with rival Seabiscuit...
...Liebenstein is a brilliant Psychiatrist. He has a patient named Harvey. Harvey is obsessed with meteorology: he believes that he is part of a secret interdimensional war between rival groups who can control the weather. ("I handle mostly mesoscale events," Harvey says modestly. "I specialize mostly in local wind patterns.") One day, out of the blue, Leo realizes that his beautiful, much younger wife Rema has been replaced by a simulacrum, a stranger who looks almost exactly like her. Who could have switched them? And why? Then Leo starts getting interested in meteorology...
...trick: three Democratic candidates in one night. First came a "surprise" walk-on by Hillary Clinton, who showed up to help fix a technical snafu with the show's video feed. "I just love solving problems," she quipped. "Call me anytime. Call me at 3 a.m." Clinton's former rival John Edwards came next, joking about what he wanted from the two remaining Democratic candidates in return for his endorsement. (Help for the poor, and a pair of jet skis.) Finally, Barack Obama chimed in via satellite, doing a riff on the tough debate questions that had irked...