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...that chapter was the one about time. I wrote another book awhile ago about infinity, and they both have the same sort of effect. When you start thinking about what time is, you can get in a bit of state where you think, "Hey, I'm losing it here," - because you cannot think outside of time. Time is part of how we experience the universe. Trying to think of before there was time, well, you're already in trouble because you're thinking "before," which is a way of measuring time. It's very easy to get yourself into...
...1990s, people discovered goat cheese. In the early 2000s, high-end restaurants started offering cheese plates. What do you see as the next big cheese trend? Cheese is something people are much more interested in and knowledgeable about than they were 20 years ago. But people are still pretty limited. They know Swiss, cheddar, goat cheese, blue cheese, brie - and that's about it. But they keep learning. It's like what happened with wine. Fifty years ago, Americans didn't drink any wine. Then they discovered European wines. Then people started trying to make wine in California. Now people...
...Georgian boys and South Ossetian boys would marry Georgian girls. But today, today there is no connection - it's all been lost." South Ossetia, in northern Georgia, had been a source of tension long before Russia and Georgia fought their brutal five-day war over the region a year ago. Since then, South Ossetia has declared its independence, but Georgia refuses to recognize the breakaway republic. Amid fears that the region is perched on the edge of another war, the once-porous border between the two is now heavily guarded and almost impossible to cross. (See pictures...
...Izolde Bagayeva, 55, sits on a bench next to Fatima and talks about her family in Tbilisi. "When we talk on the phone, all we talk about is family. We never talk about politics because we don't want to argue," she says. "Just a few days ago I spoke to my aunt and she told me, 'You know, we're never going to see each other again.'" Bagayeva's eyes well up with tears, but, like so many in South Ossetia, she feels the sacrifice is one worth making: "We want a better situation at the border...
...become used to the idea of modern-day piracy, as we hear more and more stories of gangs hijacking ships for ransom in the lawless waters of East Africa. But the mysterious disappearance of a 4,000-ton cargo ship off the coast of England two weeks ago suggests the most unlikely of scenarios: buccaneering has returned to Europe...