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...show of strength against Taiwan, China in mid-July fired a series of medium- and long-range missiles into the East China Sea less than 100 miles north of the island and conducted a set of sea-air military exercises from Aug. 15 to Aug. 25 in the same area. China's state media also launched sulfurous invective against Lee, and the country recalled its ambassador from Washington and delayed approval of the new American ambassador...
...Muslims who occupy the lands which they consider "Greater Serbia." The newspaper version reads like a finished piece of history. The television asks us at every moment if this is how we desire to write the history. So the real war here is to be fought over the medium, which in itself will surely determine the outcome of events. No one likes unhappy endings on television...
...famous metaphor of a tree falling in the woods with no one around to hear it. I couldn't disagree more with Llinas' conclusion. Light is the energy given off by a heated or excited object in the form of photons. Sound is the vibration of molecules in a medium caused by an object. Just because there may not be receivers around to pick up the light and sound does not mean they don't exist. When a tree falls in the woods, it hits the ground and vibrates the air and ground. That vibration of the air molecules...
...enormous event -- an event so much more enormous that, relative to it, the war itself shrank to minor significance." With those words fifty years ago, TIME Magazine reported theexplosion of a nuclear bomb in Hiroshima. On Sunday,Japan will solemnly commemorate the devastation. Hiroshima, then just a medium-sized city in southern Japan, wasdestroyed in seconds in one blinding flash. More than 100,000 people, nearly half of Hiroshima's population, perished immediately. Tens of thousands more died later of injuries sustained in the searing blast. But the real damage, as TIME wrote in 1945, was that this weapon...
...computer networks described in your article. I applaud none of it, yet does anyone-legislator, watchdog, censor or myself-have the right to remove this material from the Internet? The decision by an adult to view cyberporn rests with the individual alone, and it does not matter by which medium the pornography is conveyed. Access to the net should be open. HERB MAYNARD Napier, New Zealand...