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When the formal summit wound up, it was on to the joint press conference, which turned out to be one of the most extraordinary heads-of-state shows ever. Instead of the usual bland papering over of disputes, this turned into a public argument on human rights, with the journalists looking on almost as spectators. Some U.S. officials had predicted that the press conference would let Americans see just how difficult the Chinese can be to deal with and how strange the world looks from Beijing's perspective. That was how it turned...
...China joined the U.S. in a Security Council statement threatening Iraq with "serious consequences" if it expelled the Americans. "Saddam Hussein has shot himself in the foot again," said State Department spokesman James Rubin, "and it doesn't seem like there's much of his foot left." His wound was far from fatal, however. Russia, which has veto rights in the council, still opposes military strikes or even more sanctions. If the U.S. decides to punch Saddam again, there may not be as many allies in America's corner...
...race, 26.2 miles in length, wound through all five boroughs of drizzly New York City, following crowd-lined streets bedecked with balloons and banners...
Foale did what he always hoped he would do in this situation: he forced himself to stand absolutely still. If the station's wound was a mortal one, the atmosphere inside would gush out of the ship, and Foale's ears would pop suddenly and painfully. If that happened, the pain would probably be one of the last things he would ever feel, as rapid depressurization would kill the crew almost instantly...
...there was another structure Gehry wanted to refer to--the mother ship, as it were: Frank Lloyd Wright's original Guggenheim on Fifth Avenue, with its great empty center wound about by the spiral of exhibition ramp. Obviously that couldn't be repeated (it is, in any case, a curator's nightmare), but like the Bilbaino industrial metaphor, it could be evoked...