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Espionage boomed during the 20th century, as World War II and the Cold War made invisible ink and encrypted messages more than just fodder for thrillers. Austro-Hungarian agent Dusko Popov, the reported inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond, gallivanted around Europe feeding false intelligence to the Nazis and sleeping with countless women. (His fondness for ménages à trois earned him the code name Tricycle.) British spymaster Kim Philby spent 30 years rising nearly to the top of MI6, only to be unmasked as a double agent in 1963--having sent decades of secrets to the Soviets...
...carmakers' rise, fall and hoped-for resurrection. It was quite a fall. Throughout much of the 20th century, companies like Ford helped build the American middle class. For part of the 1990s, Detroit trounced its Japanese rivals in the SUV business. But then U.S. automakers, essentially, got lazy. Their war with the auto unions didn't help. Nor did the rise of the likes of Toyota. By the autumn of 2008, the Big Three CEOs had rushed to Washington to beg for a bailout. Detroit's arrogant insularity had left it with crushing debt, slipping standards and lots full...
Naturally, I knew much about her life. Anne's immortal diary, which Gies found and gave to Otto Frank after the war, was filled with praise for her devotion and sacrifice...
This course asks the questions: "Why do states wage war? Why do they cooperate? Have the answers changed historically?" The only question it won’t answer: "Why is Jack Bauer so damn badass?" | M., W., (F). 10. Link...
...long-sought PTSD fingerprint that confirms the disorder by measuring electromagnetic fields in the brain. The finding, detailed in the latest issue of the Journal of Neural Engineering, could help the 300,000 cases of PTSD that are anticipated among the 2 million U.S. troops who have gone to war in Afghanistan and Iraq...