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...political tool. For us, it is a domestic and a religious matter. It is not something that is negotiable with the Chinese." As long as that remains the case, the chances of a lasting reconciliation between the two nations are slim...
...news: across a big swath of the globe, the sea is still rising, eroding what for low-lying places was already a slim margin of safety. Making the problem even worse is the loss of what Florida International University coastal expert Stephen Leatherman calls "living landforms," which would otherwise buffer that rise. Consider the wetlands that are an integral part of all river deltas, he says. Plants trap sediment from floodwaters flowing downriver, and the more they trap, the higher these wetlands grow. The problem is, people don't much like floods, so they build levees, which keep sediments from...
...summer has not been kind to Ted Turner. His Atlanta Braves are buried in fifth place in the National League West, and now the cable-TV king's chances of gaining control of CBS appear to be as slim as his World Series hopes. Last week CBS succeeded in buying back 21% of its own stock for about $1 billion in a deal that will make it virtually impossible for Turner's takeover effort to succeed. Both the Federal Communications Commission and a U.S. district court in Atlanta blocked Turner's last-minute legal challenges to the network's move...
...around him; down below, their legs and feet meet and embrace in steps too involved even for a computer to comprehend. "The tango is a connection between the brain, the heart and the legs," says Virulazo Orcaizaguirre, 58, who looks like a Hispanic Rodney Dangerfield but moves like a slim lad of 20. "First, you feel with your heart. Then the brain tells you what to do with your feet...
This time she's Silvia, a U.N. interpreter with a murky agenda and half the goons of an African country on her slim tail. Sean Penn is Keller, the federal agent assigned to figure out what she's hiding. Is she simply a victim? Or is grief driving her to assassination...