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...issue and focusing his pitch on limited missile defense against "rogue" nations. He even laid out the somewhat improbable scenario of a missile-defenseless U.S. being intimidated by some Third World bully from staying out of a regional conflict for fear of being attacked. The Europeans are unlikely to swallow that argument from a nation whose current secretary of state once warned North Korea's Kim Jong Il that if he even threatened the U.S. with nuclear weapons, he'd be "turned into a charcoal briquette." But, Rumsfeld was prepared to use that awareness, too, warning the Europeans that without...
...October 1949 the tiny Taiwanese island of Kinmen made the world's headlines as Republican soldiers drove communist forces back into the sea. A mere 1.8 km from mainland China and trapped between the jaws of two promontories, Kinmen proved difficult for the attackers to chew and swallow. For several decades the island and mainland remained only on shelling, then on yelling, terms. Bombardment continued intermittently until 1978, and vast p.a. systems broadcast propaganda each way across the narrow straight - truly a dialogue of the deaf...
...mainland counterparts have been replaced with concrete boxes. The village of Shanhou was built at the end of the 19th century to house various branches of the Wong family, successful traders who had returned to the island. The elegant curves of the roof ridges end in the skyward pointing "swallow tails" once typical of southeast China. Some houses are filled with period furnishings and costumes, and the family shrine still represents the family's departed ancestors. A winding path up the island's highest point leads up to an ancient Taoist temple, giant golf ball-shaped radar units and superb...
...breath is positive work, my diaphragm labors draw the viscous fluid into my screaming lungs, then expels it out again through my narrow trachea. I am in a slow-motion free-fall through frigid, silent water, receding from the dim light of the sun as the deep rushes to swallow me. Every moment of descent adds thousands of pounds of water pressure that compress me on all sides, but I am not crushed. I just continue to fall, with no end in sight. I begin to hallucinate...
That may seem hard to swallow, given how consumers feel about the service they're getting. Asked in a TIME/CNN poll last week whether airline mergers will result in better or worse service for flyers, 55% of those surveyed said worse, vs. 31% who saw an upside. Over the past five years, quality of service has deteriorated even as fares have been rising. Last year was particularly miserable. Delta and United have been poleaxed by labor disputes with the pilots' union that have caused thousands of flight cancellations. And relations between American's management and its labor groups have been...