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...milestone. Ohio-born Armstrong, then 38, had become the first earthling on the moon. He was almost immediately followed by Colonel Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin, who helped plant a U.S. flag, signifying to all the world that America had won the race that had begun 12 years earlier with the launch of the Soviet Union's Sputnik. The stakes? Armstrong says today he "was certainly aware that this was the culmination of the work of 300,000 or 400,000 people over a decade...
...March 31 to implement reforms or face further mass action. Ignoring worldwide condemnation of the current wave of repression, Mugabe warned that any new protests would be dealt with "severely." Down on Dissent CUBA President Fidel Castro chose a moment when the world was looking the other way to launch a roundup of dissidents opposed to his 44-year-long communist rule. Since March 18, 78 dissidents and journalists have been jailed, accused of treason for allegedly being financed by the U.S. One who has not been arrested is physicist Oswaldo Paya, 51, head of the Varela Project, which...
...potential for violent clashes between Turkish and Kurdish forces remains high. And that creates an incentive for the U.S. to take control of the most prized piece of real estate in that conflict. That would have been a lot easier, of course, if Turkey had allowed the U.S. to launch a ground invasion from its territory...
This war is not a response to imminent danger. Rather, Bush’s policy of pre-emptive strike becomes a justification to ceaselessly launch future military campaigns to “eradicate evil”—a justification that can also be used by any other country blinded by fear or wishing to opportunistically follow suit...
Long before the shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry last month, NASA scientists had considered literally hundreds of problems that might threaten the craft's safety--and decided to launch it anyway. Columbia had accumulated a thick sheaf of what in the rocket business are called safety waivers--problems that NASA had noted but decided posed too small a risk to bother with. "That's a pretty deep stack; it really is," a member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board told TIME. "A lot of these [waivers] are legitimate--every launch is going to have them--but others...