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...National-security experts say the cover-all-bases approach is justified because of the sheer scale and prestige of the Inauguration. "It is the most challenging national-security event in the world," says Edward Clark, a former director of Homeland Security. "You're talking about a huge volume of people, and of dignitaries, so it is potentially a target for every kind of extremist, domestic or foreign." Besides, says Clark, the authors of the assessment report also need to cover themselves for every untoward possibility. "This is as much a political situation as it is a security situation," he says...
...region is ready for a fresh start: the sheer fact that los yanquis elected a liberal African American as President has already done a good deal to alter Uncle Sam's image in Latin America, even among leftists. None other than Chávez said last month that "there are winds in favor of relations between the Venezuelan government and the new President of the U.S." Cuban President Raúl Castro has said much the same. The amiability turned sour this weekend, however, when Chávez, reacting to a new Univision interview with Obama in which the President...
...accidents are all too common in Asia partly because of geographic and demographic circumstances. Countries such as Indonesia and the Philippines are heavily populated archipelagos with thousands of far-flung islands. It's axiomatic that their masses of poor citizens travel in the cheapest way possible: by boat. The sheer number of Asians traveling across open waters in a part of the world where typhoons are frequent increases the odds that mishaps will occur and death tolls will be high...
...obvious follow-up: "What happened in the past six years to revitalize American literary reading?" His answer is disappointing: "There is no statistical answer to this question." Not one to let the absence of facts spoil a good story, Gioia then goes on to propose that perhaps the sheer volume of electronic entertainment and communication we're exposed to has created a backlash of sorts, prompting a reading renaissance. But as L.A. Times reporter Carolyn Kellogg points out, is it really accurate to consider laptops as "anti-literature?" Might the Internet be the answer and not the problem...
Over the next decade, the sheer number of chart-topping artists, musicians, and groups produced by Motown defied comprehension: Martha and the Vandellas, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. All became part of what would come to be known as the Motown Sound. It is rumored that Gordy modeled his hit factory after the Detroit car assembly line that he knew so well: Make a good product, then make something similar, and make it quick. Over here were...