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...hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is President. If anything, Iran seemed to ratchet up its defiance a month ago, when Ali Larijani, a diplomat whom European negotiators viewed as a relative moderate, was replaced as chief nuclear negotiator by a close political ally of Ahmadinejad. Sources in Tehran say that switch could not have been made without the approval of Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei - a discouraging fact for those in the West who had hoped Khamenei might be tiring of Ahmadinejad's chest-pounding belligerence...
...Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The veteran nature-series broadcaster David Attenborough, whose critically acclaimed documentaries have appeared on public television in both the U.K. and U.S, insists that wide-spectrum public-service broadcasting still plays an irreplaceable role in British cultural life. So what if some people switch off nature shows? "The notion that you shouldn't pay for something if you don't use it is uncivilized," says Attenborough. It's no different, he adds, from having some of his tax money spent on, say, a public swimming pool or library "even though I don't use either...
...company and $200 a year in fees to run it. Woo's business, the Compagnie Mauricienne de Textile, founded in 1986, is part of that boom. Its Port Louis factory is so big that workers use roller skates to get around in it, yet so nimble that it can switch from an order for 200 designer dresses to 200,000 Wal-Mart T shirts without missing a stitch...
...alarming for adults in all kinds of ways: kids suddenly want the same toys we have, which they understand better and use in ways we can't imagine. Parents once stayed up late on Christmas Eve assembling train sets. Now our children program our gadgets for us, surreptitiously switch our ring tones, leave notes on the screens. It's a dramatic reckoning with the inevitable transfer of power that occurs as children get older. It's their world now: we're just surfing through...
...onstage, I switch. I’d like to hope that Sam Zornow is a nice guy, who’s like polite and sort of shy and not jerky...and then on stage, I try to be a son of a bitch,” he says. “When I’m battling someone, I’m out for blood. I’m in your face. I’m there to mess...