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...industries on the moon is very cost-intensive," says Laurie, "so the key is finding ways that existing business translates effectively to the moon." The lack of a lunar atmosphere, for example, would add thousands of years to the life of data storage. And who knows? With earth-bound economic institutions in turmoil, even if we mess this planet up maybe someday we can still find an IKEA on the moon. THE BOURSE Bear market bargain Hamleys, the British toy-retailing institution, used the economic downturn to go bargain shopping, buying defunct English Teddy Bear Co. for $1.1 million. Disastrous...
...Bolshevik Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, the wars in Korea and Vietnam, and the cold war. When the Long War finally ended, with the reunification of Germany and the fall of communism in the Soviet Union, we thought we would have peace because we had resolved the question that bound all these wars into one: What form of the nation-state--fascist, communist or parliamentarian--would succeed the imperial states of the 19th century? When this was answered by the triumph of parliamentarian democracy, some thought the "end of history" had come, that the struggle to achieve a final constitutional...
...mini-gallery, the Banpo Village Caf?, doubles as a salon for Nanjing's creative population. Painters and performance artists crowd every table, cracking sunflower seeds and chatting till the wee hours. While discussions often center on the struggle to bring modern art to the general public in a tradition-bound country with a skittish government, the crowd also dedicates plenty of time to laughing, drinking tea and making the most of the anti-9-to-5 lifestyle. And visitors, even nonartists, are readily welcomed. In one evening, I was invited to four artists' studios as well as to lunch, afternoon...
Mats Albinsson first saw the picture of a bound and gagged young girl last November. It was on a kiddie-porn website, and Albinsson, an investigator for Save the Children Sweden, was determined to shut down the site. Next to the girl was a man in a blue shirt with a logo that Albinsson traced to a Danish Internet company. He tipped off the local police, and the man was arrested. The girl was the daughter of the man's girlfriend--part of an international pedophile network specializing in father-daughter incest. U.S. Customs Service Commissioner Robert Bonner announced last...
...that archetype for the American melting pot, all have one thing in common, one shared characteristic that they vibrantly celebrate. They are different, unique, nonconformist and in short, ardently individualistic. The reason real New Yorkers are infamous for their frank and often overly candid remarks is that they are bound by one important law for all their actions—never forsake one’s true identity, one’s true self...