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...order of increasing difficulty. It's an all-day affair: two three-hour sessions with a two-hour break. No calculators, no notes, no mercy. "There certainly is a mystique surrounding the exam," says Ravi Vakil, co-author of a book about the exam. "I think awe, respect and terror all apply...
...stuck in traffic behind a Range Rover have in common? A desire to rethink the American love affair with the sport-utility vehicle (SUV), which accounts for 27% of new-auto sales. A national television ad campaign will be launched in January linking gas guzzlers to the war on terror. One commercial opens with an image of an SUV driver pumping gas, followed by stock footage of a terrorist training camp. The closing text reads, "What is your SUV doing to the world?" The two 30-second spots are the project of Laurie David, wife of comedian Larry David, along...
...matter how powerful humankind thinks itself to be, the forces of nature have a way of asserting themselves, bringing with them both awe and terror. Fires and floods, tornadoes and droughts--all provide startling images that remind us of the power of the natural world. By comparison, our own efforts can seem puny: a railroad buckles, houses cower before an oncoming storm, fishermen desperately try to combat a flood in torrent. In the night sky, a light show beyond the wildest dreams of human engineers makes us primeval once more, gazing to the heavens with the same kind of wonder...
...Balkans and the U.S. war in Afghanistan, though he says he is "not 100% [certain] it was the right thing to do." On the issue of Iraq, he sides with critics of Bush who say a war will distract from the more immediate priority of defending the country from terror attacks. "The idea is to get people to think about things on a factual level," he says. "Would a war in Iraq actually contribute to national security or not? What should we be doing to make ourselves safer?" Leon recognizes that the peace movement is battling from behind and that...
...Nowhere is this sense that the Bush Doctrine really means Manifest Destiny writ globally more worrying than in Indonesia. The country has been battered by terrorism?a series of unexplained terrorist bombings over the past few years includes the October conflagration in Bali that killed 191 innocents?yet only 31% of Indonesians polled by Pew approved of Bush's war on terror. Many of them see it as a war on Muslims?on themselves?not on the terrorist networks their own police have uncovered. After the Bali attack rumors spread, and usually reliable newspapers conjectured, that the CIA was behind...