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...Hawking, who holds Sir Isaac Newton's former chair in mathematics at Cambridge University, explains: "The aim of the book is to encourage children's sense of wonder at the universe. We want them to look outward. Only then will they be able to make the right decisions to safeguard the future of the human race...
...firsthand view of the new Great Game, James Graff, our London-based senior editor, journeyed to the village of Resolute in Canada's remote Nunavut territory, where the Canadian government plans to build a military training center to safeguard the coming economic bounty. And our Berlin bureau chief, Andrew Purvis, set off for the isolated Norwegian outpost of Hammerfest, a template for future Arctic boomtowns...
...TIME: Some people say you are America 's poodle. Meles: Our objective is to safeguard Ethiopia's interests. Ethiopia's interests at the moment fully coincide with America's security interests in the region, and therefore it's perfectly normal for us to work very closely with the U.S. We have not denied the fact that we are working very closely with the U.S. We have every reason to do so. We are not ashamed of it. If that makes us a poodle, if protecting one's national interest means being a poodle, then so be it, that...
...this bodes ill for the Bush Administration's hopes that the general will keep his country together, safeguard its nuclear weapons and help combat a resurgent Taliban and al-Qaeda. Washington knows the general needs help, which is why it has covertly encouraged a Musharraf-Bhutto deal, with the goal of rallying the moderate majority. "There's an absence of any other people who could be seen as an effective cohering force inside Pakistan," says an Administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "The interest we have had is in trying to bring together the middle of Pakistani society...
...Hong Kong businessmen crossed the border in search of cheaper production facilities. Product safety standards have long been an issue, but the unprecedented level of international attention is putting pressure on manufacturers. With its export-driven economic growth on the line, the Chinese government has taken aggressive steps to safeguard the reputation of its goods. It has closed unsafe food factories, issued new regulations for product safety and shuttered the exporters whose tainted chemical products and pet food additives were linked to the death of more than 100 consumers in Panama and thousands of pets in the U.S. The measures...