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...muscle, striding onto the global stage and acting like a nation that very much intends to become the world's next great power. In the past year, China has established itself as the key dealmaker in nuclear negotiations with North Korea, allied itself with Russia in an attempt to shape the future of central Asia, launched a diplomatic offensive in Europe and Latin America and contributed troops to the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon. With the U.S. preoccupied with the threat of Islamic terrorism and struggling to extricate itself from a failing war in Iraq, China seems ready to challenge...
...Congratulations on your choice for Person of the Year. Time put a face on the millions of common people around the world whose boundary-pushing contributions have helped shape the information age in a myriad of ways. The 21st century may be the one in which ordinary people create improvements in such fields as education, health, environmental science and economics, using the inventive technology possible only in this uncommon information age. Ratna Ray Toronto...
...After a tough loss against Dartmouth,” Kessler said, “I had to shape it up. I have been thinking about it, but it’s my first year so obviously we make mistakes, but as Coach says, ‘It’s how you bounce back.’ I really took that to heart...
...figure keepsshrinking to new lows, so ahead of Milan's Fashion Week next month, Italy banned from its runways any body mass index under 18.5. Spain imposed similar restrictions, and Brazil--where a model died from anorexia--is also considering a ban. Here, a look at the shifting shape of the female fashion mannequin...
Even as his faith inspired him to save Nixon, he refused to use it to save himself. Ford's discretion would be tested as the 1976 campaign took shape. Former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter was a Southern Baptist who taught Sunday school, did mission work, filled in for preachers when they were on vacation and told the crowd at a backyard reception in 1976 that he had been born again. His sister Ruth Carter Stapleton was herself an evangelist who used to minister to reporters in the back of Carter's campaign plane and wrote letters to the faithful enlisting...