Word: transport
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BOOKS How sneakers became our favorite form of mass transport...
...overthrow of all this Blimpism was Colonel Masanobu Tsuji. A hard-eyed veteran of the Kwantung Army who made an intense study of jungle warfare, he tested what he had learned by training his troops in fierce heat, with little food or water. When they were crammed onto transport vessels for the stormy southward voyage, they carried pamphlets that said their mission was to free "100 million Asians tyrannized by 300,000 whites." To military headquarters in Tokyo, Tsuji confidently -- and pretty accurately -- predicted that if the war started on Nov. 3, "we will be able to capture Manila...
...aboard a transport in the Palau Islands, waiting for word to go to the Philippines. When I heard of the attack on Pearl Harbor, I felt glad that we had won the first strike. At the same time, worries crept over me like a black cloud: if the U.S. really fought back, Japan might lose...
Meles is also throwing out the textbooks on capitalism to fashion distinctly Ethiopian economic policies. In August his government unveiled a draft program that elicited skeptical grimaces in the West. While the plan opens up road transport and retail trade to private capital, it also maintains government control of the petroleum, mining and chemical industries. Even less encouraging to potential aid donors, who want to see evidence that capitalist inclinations have buried socialist leanings for good, private ownership of land is still forbidden. Meles regards this as critical to protecting the interests of the poor peasant farmers who constitute almost...
Waves, Disks and Dynamos: Angular Momentum Transport in Low Mass Disks-with Ethan Vishniac of the University of Texas. In the Phillips Auditorium at 60 Garden...