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...that, say, George Orwell would have passed. Perhaps, though few would have stood fast so long. But Lloyd Parry knows that Indonesia was far more than his own personal crucible. It was the courage of ordinary Indonesians and East Timorese, not foreign journalists, that stemmed the insanity and helped transform the region. His years there were indeed a time of madness, but madness, like fear, does not last forever...
...download songs and burn customized discs. So far, 45 stores in Seattle and Austin, Texas, have the units, and Starbucks plans to announce more by year's end. "[Music] is a big component of our overall strategy," says Starbucks Entertainment president Ken Lombard, adding that coffee-house sales will "transform how music is discovered and delivered...
Enzymes that help transform cornstarch into ethanol are fairly run-of-the-mill in biotech terms. The same can't be said of those needed to brew bioethanol from indigestible plant fibers. Making enzymes efficient and cheap enough for that has long been an obstacle to a viable bioethanol industry. Canada's Iogen is the only biotech firm to have shipped a batch of commercial bioethanol (see main story). But Novozymes is making waves as well. It announced in March that with $17 million in U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funding, it had reduced the cost of enzymes for making...
...strength and stamina levels and comparing them to some abstract norm started a few years later, in fifth grade, when we were called to the playground to compete for the President's physical fitness certificate. The hidden purpose of this cold war--era program was, I presume, to transform the public schools into a vast network of junior boot camps. The criteria for obtaining the certificate were ominously unvarying and exact. If a child couldn't do a certain number of chin-ups or complete the 50-yd. dash in a certain number of seconds, he was failing not only...
...current-affairs shows to viewers throughout the U.S., Europe and the rest of the developed world. And there's more to come from al-Jazeera and its fabulously petro-rich bankroller, the government of the tiny state of Qatar. The English channel is the centerpiece of a plan to transform the company into a media powerhouse with greater clout in the Middle East and far beyond. "We are expanding to become a major international media group," al-Jazeera chairman Sheik Hamad bin Thamer al-Thani explained in a TIME interview. "The market is open. Our ambition is to be among...