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Stalking these massive creatures were predators of equally awesome aspect: muscular jaguars, saber-toothed cats and thick-bodied dire wolves with bone-crunching teeth. Most horrible of all were the short-faced bears, huge animals that weighed twice as much as modern grizzlies and could chase down and kill anything except perhaps a full-grown mastodon. But about 13,000 years ago, not long after the first humans arrived in the New World, all but a few of these remarkable creatures--collectively known as megafauna--had vanished...
...stamp on this era. His predecessor, Lee Teng-hui, made enormous strides promoting Taiwan's democratic institutions and mentality, raising Taiwanese national consciousness and standing up to China. He also aspired to greatness and came close to it with his overwhelming 1996 electoral victory in the face of Chinese saber-rattling. With Lee in retirement, who will now take Taiwan through this millennial upshifting, who can handle the levers and gears to smooth the exhilarating ride...
...indication that Washington may be onto a good thing with its "smart sanctions" proposal against Iraq is the fact that it's got Baghdad rattling its saber. Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz on Wednesday warned Jordan and Turkey that they'd lose access to cheap oil from Baghdad if they go along with Washington's proposals, many of which are contained in a U.N. Security Council resolution that Britain plans to introduce next week...
Even giving the Bush administration the benefit of the doubt on its hasty retraction of Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's latest bit of saber-rattling sends an unfortunate signal to the Chinese: that an error by a lowly clerk in Washington is able to take U.S.-China relations...
...weeks preceding Hainan, Powell had been under pressure from Bush administration hard-liners inclined to see him as an incorrigible dove whose commonsense policies on questions such as Iraq sanctions and dialogue with North Korea were undercutting their saber-rattling. But once the administration was plunged without warning into a situation that threatened to escalate into a crisis, he was the man of the hour...