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...already had the chance and chosen to pass on it. Oh, sure, some point to our military bases around the world, and others use globalization as proof of informal U.S. imperialism. Yet Turkey has long hosted American troops, and it flatly denied our requests for basing and transit rights during the Iraqi campaign. If we really were an empire, then surely we would’ve used our established presence to force those concessions...
...these fragile pieces are bound to be destroyed in transit, and libraries of tablets will be fragmented into smaller lots to be sold,” he says. “Once that happens, it will be very difficult to decipher the meaning of many of these texts, if they are ever recovered...
...There are some aspects of the transit system that make an attack difficult, because the system itself was made with a kind of flushing capacity, so any kind of toxic material is difficult to disperse widely other than in a confined and controlled place like a subway car. So we pay attention to the subway cars themselves. We have significantly increased the numbers of officers that go into cars, searching cars unannounced. We protect our tunnels under the water, with police officers assigned there 24 hours...
...design featured immense twin towers of steel latticework. High-rise delicacies, they looked like ghostly evocations of the annihilated Trade Center--too much so for some people. The Port Authority also preferred Libeskind's design because it was less expensive and easier to integrate with their plans for transit lines and a rail station. And New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg liked the street life and plazas...
...will continue to be for the next six hours of delightful sport. The Pakistani team is lagging and one presenter says, “Let’s hope they get a birthday present from God.” Apparently, this birthday package got lost in transit: Pakistan lost to India by six wickets, and for those of us in the know, that’s a bloody...