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...latest sign of change, the first U.S. ambassador to Libya in 37 years hosted 100 Libyan women at his house one February evening for the first American cultural event in decades. American singers shimmied across the stage in tight dresses, belting out Broadway show tunes like "All That Jazz" and "New York." "For years this place was Slumberland," says Sami Zaptia, a Libyan business consultant in Tripoli. "Now everyone wants to get on the Libya gravy train." (See "After 37 Years, the U.S. Arrives to Do Business in Libya...
Chances are, if you grew up in the mid-1950s, you either owned an official Davy Crockett coonskin cap or had the lyrics of the television show's theme song committed to memory: "Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee/ Greenest state in the land of the free ... Davy, Davy Crockett/ King of the wild frontier." Under the iconic cap--just one of the show's many merchandising tie-ins--stood Fess Parker, who died on March 18 at 85. The 6-ft. 6-in. Texas-born actor fit the rugged American frontiersman mold so well in the five Crockett episodes...
...nationwide "Day of Anger" that agitators had hyped for weeks proved to be marked less by ire than by indifference. Organizers, miffed at the sputtering economy and rising prices, had hoped tens of thousands would show on March 20 to call for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to resign. But demonstrators in some cities numbered only in the hundreds. The state media, meanwhile, largely ignored the protests. The Kremlin was unmoved...
...been a difficult few months for climate scientists. There were the stolen e-mails of Climategate that purported to show an attempt to cover up data disputing global warming, the much ballyhooed summit in Copenhagen that ended in disappointment, and the revelation of several errors in the work of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. By March, congressional Republicans were calling for a McCarthy-style investigation into global-warming scientists, and researchers were being inundated with hate mail. Note to science students in search of a major: entomology is looking nice these days...
...work,” junior midfielder Andrew Parchman said. “We know we’re a great team—we just have to act like it. Unfortunately, it’s taken us a little longer than just the first quarter to buckle down and show what we’ve really got. But that can change...