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Apparently stung by what he considered favoritism shown to Aquino among opposition leaders, Laurel abruptly demanded the resignation of Cecilia Munoz Palma, 73, head of the twelve-party organization known as the National Unification Committee, a body charged with hammering out the opposition ticket. Fumed Laurel: "You have shown partiality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Lucky Sevens | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

The swampy, semitropical wilderness in southern Florida called the Everglades lies in a peculiar bowl-shaped depression that was bound to arouse the curiosity of geologists. They concluded years ago that the distinctive cavity was probably formed over many aeons as ground water slowly dissolved a surface layer of limestone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida Bowl: An Everglades asteroid? | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Citing evidence from bore samples taken in southern Florida, Petuch says that, after impact, coral began to grow on the raised rim of the crater, forming a circular atoll-like formation. Later, when the sea level rose, the atoll gradually elongated into an ellipse as the coral (which seeks warm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida Bowl: An Everglades asteroid? | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

CITIC is an elite concern formed in 1979 on the personal order of Deng Xiaoping. He proposed a kind of Western investment banking firm to get around the ponderous Peking bureaucracy and speed China's economic development. Led by Rong, 70, a silver-haired millionaire, the organization has helped foreign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breath of Fresh Air: China International Trust and Investment Corporation | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

She was just a wide-eyed ten-year-old Maine schoolgirl when she sent a letter in 1982 to then Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov, asking that the superpowers work toward a more peaceful world. After Andropov responded by inviting her to visit the Soviet Union, Samantha Smith became America's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 13, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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