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...Steinhausler at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation in the October issue of Arms Control Today. "Despite the danger, no multilateral treaty requires that nuclear material and facilities be protected from such attacks." Jürgen Sattari, spokesman for a Bremen-based environmental group called Robin Wood, said the November protesters had a simpler idea in mind: an earlier phase-out of nuclear power in Germany. "Our goal is to stop the use of atomic energy," he said, "and the transport of waste is one possibility to show the politicians that this is not the right energy...
...Post man conjures up some mango juice, and I go out on the road to a bakery selling wheels of sweetbread fresh from a wood-fired oven. The lights go out (electricity is stolen from Chaman a few hundred meters down the road), so we light candles...
...good news - what to be thankful for this week, in an economic sense - is that Monday the stock markets decided anew that this rally we?ve been having, the one that has Wall Street knocking on wood at every closing bell, is a proper and justified thing...
Which is not to say that politicians didn't do their best to milk the situation. By one estimate, campaigns across the country spent more than $10 million on commercials about terrorism. Setting the standard for tawdry was Lieutenant Governor Corinne Wood of Illinois, who tried to get a jump on next year's Governor's race with an ad that juxtaposed an image of the burning World Trade Center with one of the Sears Tower in Chicago. (Her campaign later said the spot, which ran several times in Springfield, was never meant to air.) Others were more successful...
...enjoyed the often undivided instruction of the older monks, who schooled him in the improbably paired disciplines of Chan (Zen) Buddhism and kung fu, for which the temple was famous. Daily exercises sharpened both his physical and mental control: 30-minute handstands were followed by meditation; bare-handed wood chopping was a prelude to chanting sutras. "Buddhists believe in reincarnation," Yan Ming says, "and I figure I must have been a martial artist or a monk in a previous life. It all felt very natural to me." By the age of 17, he could dangle a 23-kg weight from...