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...toward free-market democracy - so much so that some U.S. and European legislators and human-rights groups want to kick it out of the G-8. Russia's postcommunist transition was always going to be slow and erratic, but what worries many experts now is that the direction of travel in many areas is reverse. U.S. pro-democracy organization Freedom House's annual country ratings show a steady decline in Russia's adherence to fair elections, representative government and press freedom. State-controlled companies already run 40% of the economy, and the share is rising - part of a wider pattern...
...accomplices, had visited Pakistan, where it is believed they met with extremist groups. Khan may also have been in contact with jihadist extremists in the U.S. The al-Qaeda network [an error occurred while processing this directive] of networks is a transnational phenomenon, facilitated by the Internet, easy international travel and relaxed border controls, and held together by shared ideology. Its flexibility and lack of formal structure have enabled it to adapt and survive despite the heavy blows it has suffered in the war on terror. The most significant finding of the investigation into the July 7 bombings...
...task force ultimately came to a consensus to prohibit paying women who donate eggs, but allow reimbursement for travel or other directly related expenses such as lost wages. (Incidentally, the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, which last month became the first U.S. academic facility to begin recruiting women to donate eggs for stem cell studies, adopted the same restriction; they will not pay women for donating, but will compensate them for travel and other expenses related to their participation.) The task force released a draft of its proposed guidelines to its 2300 membership in a town hall forum at the Society...
...Thanks to McDonald's, Holiday Inn, and Howard Johnson, one suddenly could travel coast-to-coast and eat from an unvarying menu and sleep in the same room every night. As Alphonse Karr might have mused, "The more one travels, the more one stays in the same place." Indeed, by now, the Interstates' uniform signages - emblazoned with the system's own red-white-and-blue shield icon; others proclaiming speed-limits and upcoming exits; and still others touting McDonald's, Best Western, Exxon, BP, and Wendy's - float through our subconscious like so many branded Jungian archetypes...
...Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton sparred over how to balance democracy, freedom and commerce in American lives. Put another way, even as history's odometer this season rolls up the Interstates' 50th anniversary, these roads still take us on a multi-lane tour of our murkiest feelings about home and travel, the near and the distant, the here and the there...