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...attraction? Veteran Chinese star Hao Haidong. "We're looking at [China] as a long-term enterprise," says Terry Robinson, Sheffield United's vice chairman. The perception has been that Chinese fans are easily pleased, but expectations are rising. Beijing's Workers' Stadium was two-thirds empty for Man U's game; fans in the same arena jeered Real Madrid's halfhearted showing. Players will only "do what they have to do to drive the interest," suggests Rob Mason, managing director of London-based sponsorship consultant firm SBI. "There are signs fans are getting wise to this." That's something...
...coup was a reminder to policy planners of how quickly a situation that just looks "bad" can get worse. Russia's thousands of warheads remain a worry, and some of the more concerned analysts fear that the country is just one bad winter away from an anti-U.S. policy. They also fear the chance of an accidental war, set off by all the poorly maintained missiles still pointed up. Says Peter Pry, a House staff member and author of War Scare: "I'm more concerned than ever that we could stumble into the big one with [Russia]." That...
America's atomic project dated from 1939, when Albert Einstein warned Franklin D. Roosevelt that Germany was trying to develop atomic weapons based on an isotope of uranium, U-235. The American nuclear program thus commenced under the sharp prod of fear that Germany would win the race to be the first atomic power. It is fully reasonable to assume that the first U.S. bomb would have been used against Germany had it been available in time...
MANCHURIA J A P A N PHILIPPINES U . S . S . R . CHINA...
...Arab world, Telesur (sur is Spanish for "south") aspires to be the medium through which Latin Americans see their news and culture. Some 70% of its $2.5 million seed money has been put up by oil-rich Venezuela and its flamboyant President, Hugo Chávez--whose leftist, often anti-U.S. agenda includes increased Latin American integration and a rejection of Yanqui-based TV like CNN en Espańol. "U.S. and European networks offer a good product, but they tend to view Latin America in black-and-white terms--and usually black, like disasters," argues Uruguayan-born Telesur director Aram...