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...Then the violence began, with at least two monks reported killed. As an eyewitness at Rangoon's best-known landmark, the golden Shwedagon Pagoda, tells it, the authorities had locked the famous monument's gates to prevent the monks from gathering. Security forces guarded the entrances. A little after noon, hundreds of monks, students and other Rangoon residents approached the police, sat on the road and began to pray. The troops responded quickly, pulling monks from the crowd and striking both clerics and ordinary citizens with canes. Several smoke bombs exploded, and the riot police charged. Some protestors fought back...
...rush hour in São Paulo, and I am riding pillion through the frenetic streets of downtown. Up ahead are two motorbike medics on their way to an emergency call. From the way they handle their bikes I can tell they are used to weaving through the nose-to-tail traffic. I, on the other hand, feel as if I am in a deadly video game. This is São Paulo, the biggest metropolis in South America and one of the most chaotic cities on earth. Everywhere we turn, obstacles rush at us. As we approach the city...
...beat you in a one-on-one. Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: “Don’t worry about those pics, no one’s judging you on facebook.” Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: This is what cool looks like. Favorite childhood toy: Skip-It. Sexiest physical trait: My friends. Favorite part about Harvard: Being able to live the dream every day. Describe yourself in three words: Can’t be stopped. In 15 minutes you are: Ballin’. In 15 years...
...Julia Child used to frequent this famed foodie haunt, a carnivore’s fantasyland that stocks every cut of meat imaginable and provides its products to local restaurants like Upstairs on the Square and Radius. Perusing the butcher’s section, I overheard a market employee apologetically tell one dejected customer that Savenor’s was out of ostrich fillets. Shame. Wild boar meat suddenly caught my eye. I momentarily had fantasies of preparing a hearty boar ragu with pappardelle noodles, but the slow simmering necessary wouldn’t be feasible in my dorm room. Instead...
...target. "My fervent desire is to get the V-22 into the fight as soon as we can," General James Conway, commandant of the Marines, said in March. "I think it's going to prove itself rapidly." But then he said something that stunned V-22 boosters: "I'll tell you, there is going to be a crash. That's what airplanes do over time." Conway is not alone. Ward Carroll, the top government spokesman for the V-22 program from 2002 to 2005, believes that six Ospreys, about 5% of the fleet, will crash during its first three years...