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...years ago, opened up the world-famous Silk Road; Eminent Monk Xuan Zang, of the Tang Dynasty, brought back ancient culture after braving the long journey to South Asian countries. In the Ming Dynasty, Chinese navigator Cheng Ho led a fleet to what the people then called the "West Sea" seven times in the 15th century, spreading the Chinese culture to distant land. Only later on, especially in the late Qing Dynasty, [did] the feudal rulers adopt [...] a policy of seclusion, which hampered China's progress and its exchanges with the outside world. After the Opium War, generation after generation...
...Bill Clinton would say last Wednesday--because the whole world would be affected. The President had promised four months ago at the United Nations that the U.S. would at last make a stand against global warming, the ominous trend that threatens the planet with climatic upheaval: melting glaciers, rising sea levels and more frequent and vicious storms. In December, 160 nations will meet in Kyoto, Japan, to forge a treaty to combat climate change, but until last week the U.S. refused to put its cards on the negotiating table. And without the forceful leadership of the U.S.--the most prolific...
...accelerating. The three hottest years in the past century have come in the past decade, and 1995 was the sultriest on record. Spring arrives a week earlier in the northern hemisphere than it did a decade ago. Mountain glaciers are melting all over the world, and the permanent sea ice surrounding Antarctica has receded dramatically. Unusually severe weather has been more frequent in the past few years, quite plausibly a consequence of both higher temperatures and the increased evaporation and precipitation they'd be likely to cause...
After two weeks of R. and R. on the Black Sea, Lazutkin and Tsibliyev are on tour, hitting six German cities to promote the space program. Despite his ordeal, Lazutkin remembers Mir fondly. "Up there, there's something worth watching. The earth...the northern lights. You fly like a bird. And you can't fathom how people could possibly walk." He'd still love to take another spin onboard. The odds, however, are slim...
...extract as much sound as possible from his orchestra. Again, the central placement of the cello section onstage allowed for the diffusion of a remarkably pithy timbre perfectly suited to the first movement. Passages seemed to dissolve into dissonance, sliding into prolonged suspensions wherein the orchestra became a sea of reddened faces...