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Meanwhile, the regime brooked no opposition. Behind the President's smile were very sharp teeth. Student activists would vanish, dissident writers and journalists jailed. Thousands were killed in Aceh, where a separatist rebellion simmered for 29 years; and more than 200,000 are believed to have perished in East Timor after Indonesia invaded the tiny Portuguese enclave in 1975. (East Timor has since established its independence from Indonesia...
Sometimes you don't know what you've got until it's gone. And that's the thought-experiment author Alan Weisman presents in his book The World Without Us - TIME's #1 Non-Fiction book of 2007. What if humanity were to vanish? What would happen to our planet? TIME's Amy Lennard Goehner discusses these and other end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it questions with the author...
...Facebook friends. In essence, she is exactly the person that we need to maintain a lively, adversarial relationship with student groups and the college administration. UC meetings would no longer stretch on for hours, decorum would be kept with the help of tasers, and UC skeptics and detractors would vanish in their sleep by her newly established secret police. Her aggressive capitalist tendencies will dominate student group financial matters, forcing student groups to be bold and innovative in order to obtain funds, eventually resulting in mega-conglomerate student groups, such as the Harvard College Baptist Labor Southeast Asian Rugby Advocacy...
...often segregated by race and class--had a common interest, and it could help extend the coalition against climate change beyond hard-core greenies. "Polar bears, Priuses and Ph.D.s aren't going to do it alone," says Jones, 39. "Everything our friends in the eco-élite do will vanish unless we find a way to expand green jobs to the rest of the economy...
...answer, strategic plans to complete or loved ones to placate. Stress is internal, he insists. Make a rational assessment of your situation with all its requirements and flaws--consider, for instance, the past behavior of your customers, your colleagues, your spouse--adjust your expectations accordingly, and the stress will vanish. He gives some quick examples. "I'm in New York. There will be traffic," he says, smiling calmly. "My wife is an irritable person." he observes. "If I say, 'Darling, get me a cup of tea.' She says, 'I'm not a servant. Get your own tea.' If I hear...