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...earth's climate does change. Ice ages have frosted the planet for tens of thousands of years at a stretch, and periods of warmth have pushed the tropics well into what is now the temperate zone. But given the normal year-to-year variations, the only reliable signal that such changes may be in the works is a long-term shift in worldwide temperature...
...downed plane, had told his mother. It got so bad that U.S. officials complained. "We went to the Chinese and said, 'Your aircraft are not intercepting in a professional manner. There is a safety issue here,'" recalls Admiral Dennis Blair, head of the U.S. Pacific Command. "It's not normal practice to play bumper cars...
...retuned the message, the Administration discussed even tougher options. Diplomatic meetings and military exchanges could be canceled. Bush could drop his fall visit to Beijing planned for late this year. He could make dark noises about trade, even end normal trading status. The U.S. could get in the way of China's quest to hold the 2008 Olympics. Then there was the question of whether to sell advanced defensive weapons to Taiwan. "He's got a lot of sticks," a former Clinton Administration official says of Bush, "but the problem is, they...
...history at Oxford his summer job was sweeping floors and serving drinks in the family business. After graduation he sought adventure and profit in Russia, working with a friend to secure an international route for a Russian airline. Two years later, he concluded the country was too corrupt for normal business and came back to London...
...Delvoye, a teetotalling vegetarian, "Belgium is the studio, New York the exhibition place," and he divides his time between the two. In Belgium, he says, the bizarre is normal. He can get Ghent's master plumbers and professional biochemists alike to contribute to his excretory vision, and during last autumn's show at Antwerp's Museum of Contemporary Art, he says, "everybody went with the kids to see the shit machine on a Sunday." In Belgium, he can even find a clinic that lets him take after-hours x-rays of his friends' sexual frolics, which he turns into stained...