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...technology products--we're losing ground while countries like China, South Korea and India are catching up fast. Unless things change, they will overtake us, and the breathtaking burst of discovery that has been driving our economy for the past half-century will be over. In his 2005 best seller, The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman argues that globalization has collapsed the old hierarchy of economic engine-nations into a world where the ambitious everywhere can compete across borders against one another, and he identifies the science problem as a big part of that development. Borrowing a phrase from Shirley...
DIED. BETTY FRIEDAN, 85, icon of postwar American liberalism who wrote the 1963 best seller The Feminine Mystique, which explored the "sense of dissatisfaction" among midcentury women who "made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children," while secretly wondering, "Is this all?"; in Washington. Born in Peoria, Ill., Friedan--whose mother quit her newspaper job to be a housewife-- was once fired after she asked for maternity leave. Mystique began as research for an article on what had happened to her classmates in Smith College's class of 1942. The book made...
...forces. "Fatah has not achieved anything for me," he says over coffee in an al-Bireh café. "Hamas is capable of taking back the rights of the Palestinian people--daily rights like a good job, clean water." "Fatah has forgotten even their own mothers," says Abu Tayseer, a cake seller at the next table. "The party is nothing but a crowd of blackmailers." Now the blackmailers are in opposition, and it's up to Hamas to fulfill Palestinians' hopes--big and small...
...Gavin Menzies, the map's most vocal champion, is sure it did. Menzies, a retired British Naval Commander, is the author of 1421: The Year China Discovered America, a book that puts Zheng He's fleet on American shores seven decades ahead of Columbus. Published in 2002, this best seller mixes established fact with Menzies' own much-disputed interpretations of history. It was a Chinese edition of 1421 and subsequent e-mails with Menzies that Liu says convinced him of his map's significance. Menzies, who has helped publicize Liu's find, tells TIME: "There isn't one millionth...
...language before encouraging them to use it to become more innovative. "I think we're getting it now," says Horbury. As an example of the new thinking, he points to the Fusion, a sporty, affordable midsize sedan that Ford hopes will compete with the Toyota Camry, a perennial top seller that also boasts a new design...