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...martyr for the opposition and is enduring his second period of detention since the election (he has survived a heart attack in prison). He is also the son of one of the primary architects of the Islamic revolution. According to the website, Beheshti's wife informed Rafsanjani from a safe hiding place that security forces had attempted to arrest her too. The story then has an enraged Rafsanjani confronting the Supreme Leader, who proclaimed Ahmadinejad to be President, demanding that he bring an end to "shameful actions." (See pictures of the violent protests in Tehran in December...
September 1986: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the government body in charge of keeping the roads safe, orders its first recall of Toyota cars because of "speed control" problems, according to the NHTSA database (though defects with the two 1982 models involved were related to faulty cruise control). A second investigation into sudden-acceleration dangers with Toyota vehicles takes place this year...
...Will more Big China Books appear this decade? I think it safe to bet that they will. The desire for confident answers to Big China Questions has never been stronger. Will admirable works of scholarly reporting also keep coming out? I'm even more confident answering this question affirmatively. One such work, Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory, is being published in February, and it's the best yet from Peter Hessler, whose two earlier books, River Town (2001) and Oracle Bones (2006), were exemplary forays into the genre. Country Driving begins with the author recounting...
...like suburban compounds, the Damascus embassy still occupies prime real estate - just a stone's throw from the residence of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Syria's much feared state-security apparatus keeps close tabs on everyone entering and leaving the embassy; it also helps keeps the embassy relatively safe from the occasional jihadist sneak attack. In turn, living close to the Americans may help Assad sleep more easily at night, say Damascene wags, because the proximity of the embassy would make the U.S. and Israel think twice about ever trying to dropping a bomb on him. (See pictures...
...point was to offer students a safe environment to practice networking with alumni who really do want to help them learn,” said OCS Associate Director Susan M. Vacca...