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...politicians and chest-beating nationalists in the two nations will make rational discussion nearly impossible. Yet it is time for leaders on both sides of the Pacific to lift their heads above overwhelming domestic concerns and fix China's deteriorating relationship with foreign business and the developed world before things get out of control. One thing's certain: they won't find the answers through Google...
...best thing we can do is increase security and intelligence - but in a way that makes sense. Having to sit for part of a flight will simply mean an adjustment in plans for a terrorist. And if we focus too much on Afghanistan, where our intelligence agencies say there are only 100 or so al-Qaeda operatives, we run the risk of taking our eyes off the prize and playing into the hands of the forces we are trying to defeat. Roland Nicholson Jr. Mont-Tremblant, Canada...
...father and a daughter," she says, defending the song all these years later. "There was a lot of shyness about frankly saying, I love you. My father would say it to other people and through song, and wanted me to know it through other people as a public thing." (Read about Serge Gainsbourg in the pages of TIME...
...executed opponents in a series of dictatorships from 1966 to 1999. And yet, in the taxi ranks, sports bars and five-star hotels in Lagos and Abuja, there are more and more whispers wishing the generals were back. Not that people see a military regime as a good thing. But, say some, it might just be better than the dreadful present: a President, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, confined to his sickbed in Saudi Arabia for two months but refusing to hand over to his deputy; the government of Africa's most populous country adrift; a civil war likely to start...
...store in Iowa. For good reason: it's still almost impossible to believe all these years later. In 1994, after the Green Bay Packers cut him - he was the fourth-string quarterback, stuck behind the legendary Ty Detmer - Warner returned to his hometown of Cedar Falls, where the only thing he was throwing was gummy bears. While working the night shift for $5.50 an hour at the local Hy-Vee supermarket, he and his bored co-workers would chuck the gooey candies at each other to pass the time...