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Last Monday morning - a scorcher in Greece - was a bad day at the Lavrion power station. First, a valve linked to unit 2 of the plant, 80 km southeast of Athens, was found to be leaking. Technicians repaired it within a few hours, but then found that one of three transmission pipes feeding water into the station's boilers was steaming up and ready to burst. Its automatic shutdown system kicked in, causing all four units of the power station to halt. That took about 1,200 MW from the country's grid and brought electrical reserves to a dangerously...
Come in here," says my friend Feri as we stop en route from Marseilles to Hungary at a gas station in northern Italy. "There's something you must see." Gazing up at me from dozens of wine bottles on the station's shelves is Adolf Hitler, his right arm outstretched in the familiar Nazi salute. Alongside him is a bottle bearing a portrait of SS chief Heinrich Himmler, organizer of the mass murder of 6 million European Jews. Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini are there as well, staring out from hundreds of bottles of Merlot, Burgundy, Cabernet Sauvignon...
...comix. Of course, they come from Japan. For the most part, American religious comicbooks are either pious adapted bible stories handed out at Sunday school or those notorious Jack T. Chick tracts ("This Was Your Life," "Bad Bob," "Doom Town") you find left behind in ATM booths and train station waiting rooms. Surprisingly, for a country founded the exploration of religious beliefs America has yet to produce many artful, thoughtful explorations of spirituality in its comix. For that we must turn to Osamu Tezuka...
...been a frustrating experience for men like police colonel Dawood Salman, a 25-year veteran of Baghdad's city force. He recently requested better arms for the Bab al-Sheikh station, where 103 men share five walkie-talkies and none have bulletproof body armor. The American MPs posted as advisers to the station, he says, "laughed at us. They said the guns would be stolen by gangs and used against Americans." Yet he and his men are expected both to crack down on the rampant crime that is terrorizing the city and to face off against insurgents...
...NASA scientists are impressed by these plans. Many believe there would be plenty of money to fly top-shelf ships if the space agency would drop its preoccupation with manned space travel. The International Space Station has been a scientific black hole, swallowing nearly $100 billion and delivering little of real value. President Bush's manned moon-Mars initiative will cost at least $170 billion--and that's from an agency that has never met a cost estimate it couldn't overrun. Forget the fixation with getting bodies in orbit or boots in the soil, critics say, and you could...