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...flight. Now, at a reported cost of more than $30 million, he will become the sixth private citizen to travel into orbit. Garriott is preparing to join the crew of the Soyuz TMA 13 mission as a spaceflight participant, thanks to Space Adventures, a company he helped found. He spoke to TIME about his upcoming voyage from the cosmonaut training facility in Star City, Russia...
...reason to explain himself and simply asked people to take his decisions on trust. That trust wilted, thanks to ANC scandals over corruption, incompetence and abuse of power. The party is in no danger of losing power. But the days when it commanded widespread respect and spoke with purpose and clarity are long gone. After Mbeki's resignation, former Archbishop Desmond Tutu - alongside Mandela, the country's principal voice of conscience - said he was "deeply disturbed" at the way in which recent events showed that the nation "has been subordinated to a political party." Tutu noted, however, that "even...
Anne C. Lusk, a research fellow at the School of Public Health, spoke of the challenges of implementing public policy to encourage people to follow healthy lifestyle habits...
...Although many Russians with whom I spoke with in Moscow this summer viewed Mr. Saakashvilli as a war criminal, American pundits and politicians painted the conflict as indicative of a resurgent, aggressive Russia bent on undermining democratic aspirations throughout the former Soviet space and spitting in the face of American influence in the eastern hemisphere...
...just as defiant as on the day of his arrest 19 years ago by Burma's military regime. "I will keep fighting for the emergence of democracy in this country," proclaimed the 79-year-old former journalist, still wearing his blue prison uniform as he spoke to reporters outside the home of a friend in Rangoon...