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...past few years, she has led a research team which worked on slowing light to a stop by using atoms cooled to several billionths of a degree above absolute zero...
...senior Administration officials say chances of U.S. troops' playing a long-term reconstruction role are "zero." Some scoff at the idea of a peacekeeping force at all. "If the Afghans can't sort this out themselves, an outside force isn't going to help," says a senior Administration official. Yet he admits the tide is against isolationists at the moment. "Peacekeeping is the flavor du jour. Talking about it shows how suave and sophisticated you are," he says...
...most ardent Arab supporters of the U.S. "It is my personal duty," he said before leaving Saudi Arabia for a trip to New York City, "to show my alliance and show the real face of the Arab, Islam and Saudi Arabia." And so, during a tour of ground zero, he presented New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani with a check for $10 million to aid the victims of the World Trade Center attacks...
...senior Administration officials say chances of U.S. troops' playing a long-term reconstruction role are "zero." Some scoff at the idea of a peacekeeping force at all. "If the Afghans can't sort this out themselves, an outside force isn't going to help," says a senior Administration official. Yet he admits the tide is against isolationists at the moment. "Peacekeeping is the flavor du jour. Talking about it shows how suave and sophisticated you are," he says...
...beginning was 1979, when Miyazaki graduated from Tokyo's Elite Gakushuin University. A scion of the family that founded Miyazaki Airplane, which manufactured parts for the Zero fighter, he studied economics and political science but preferred reading Moby Dick and Tom Sawyer. After graduation he tossed convention aside by joining an animation production company, where he met his lifelong colleague and sometime creative collaborator, Isao Takahata. They struck out on their own in 1985 with Studio Ghibli?named by Miyazaki, an aircraft buff, after a vintage Italian plane...