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...Bias Against China? In previous issues, TIME has indeed given much time to the political aspirations of some Tibetans, despite their violent protests. But in "Why China's Burning Mad," peaceful protests were marked as "virulent nationalism" with little serious reflection on the nature of the protesters' beliefs [May 5]. The suggestion that such protests are a result of government propaganda or education is misleading. In fact, thousands of overseas Chinese, who are not affected by any so-called "patriotic education," marched on streets to make their voices heard. The root cause of so much dissatisfaction among the Chinese people...
...checkpoint. How could the officers have let that happen? The major turned to my driver and continued to rant: How could he bring foreigners to this disaster area? Doing so showed his complete abdication of patriotic duty. The major warned that he would be reporting my driver's serious violation back to military headquarters. The clampdown was even more chilling near the riverside town of Laputta, where soldiers told villagers that any foreigners seen wandering around after dark would be shot, according to an aid agency operating locally...
...Although this time around the formation of micro black holes is highly unlikely, Wagner and Sancho do raise the serious question of how much chance is acceptable when it comes to destroying the earth. At some point—not necessarily this point—experimenting with powerful force in biology or physics can become reckless. Kurt Vonnegut, in his novel Cat’s Cradle, which is about the destruction of the Earth by a substance called ice-nine, asks, “What hope can there be for mankind when there are such men…to give...
...superhero tights, McCain soon began holding hearings on climate science and traveling to the Arctic to see the damage for himself. "It was a period of real self-education, and John came away convinced," says Lieberman. McCain and Lieberman co-authored the Climate Stewardship Act of 2003, the first serious attempt at climate legislation, and pulled some nifty legislative tricks to force up-or-down votes in the full Senate in 2003 and 2005. Their bill was defeated both times, but the second version attracted co-sponsors named Clinton and Obama...
Because of what it says about Sarkozy, of course, who totally dominates political debate in France even as he languishes in the opinion polls. "This setback is mainly significant against the background of serious public displeasure with Sarkozy's leadership, and the growing incidence of conservatives openly defying him and the government to show their disagreement," says Dominique Reynié, a French political analyst and professor at the Fondation National des Sciences Politiques in Paris. Despite the President's recent efforts to alternatively charm and threaten his party members back into order, Reynié says unhappiness over the meager results...