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...Armadillo Aerospace shop one evening. "It goes on top of the electronic box over here. We did a parking-lot flight a couple of years ago and roughed up one of our earlier vehicles." Not to worry, he says jokingly: there will be a glass top over the saddle seat. At least he sounded as if he was joking. Pixel has made more than 30 unmanned test flights and could begin carrying commercial payloads next year...
Sectarian relations worsened in the 16th century. By then the seat of Sunni power had moved to Istanbul. When the Turkish Sunni Ottomans fought a series of wars with the Shi'ite Safavids of Persia, the Arabs caught in between were sometimes obliged to take sides. Sectarian suspicions planted then have never fully subsided, and Sunni Arabs still pejoratively label Shi'ites as "Persians" or "Safavis." The Ottomans eventually won control of the Arab territories and cemented Sunni dominance. The British, the next power in the Middle East, did nothing to change the equation. In the settlement after World...
...school recital and made it a must-see--building buzz, tweaking Donald Trump and waving her sexuality like a semaphore flag. This doesn't mean America is about to elect Barney Frank President. But it means that in the intimate genre of TV hosting, there's an open seat for gay people at the national coffee table...
...Prime Minister and apartheid architect H.F. Verwoerd that's been made into a lamp. "It used to have a plaque on it that said, 'Let he who gave us darkness, now give us light,' but it fell off," admits Uys. Next door, in the Museum Nauseum, an intimate 80-seat theater, old political posters advise voters to bly blank my volk (Stay White My People), and there's an official portrait of the 1983 Cabinet Ministers' wives - "Where they all look like drag queens" - which Uys confesses was stolen by an M.P. from Parliament for Evita...
...super-fast rise in popularity in Asia and among Asians abroad. The panel discussion on Hallyu was scheduled to start at 4 p.m. last Friday, but people were rushing into the Starr Auditorium at the Kennedy School of Government 30 minutes earlier. Only a lucky few got front row seat for the event’s main attraction, Park Jin-Young (who goes by J.Y.P.), former Korean pop-star, current producer, and Korean household name. By 4:05 p.m., the venue was way overcrowded. A desperate student begged the guard outside to be allowed to stand next to the door...