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...Beijing will pick up military technology and, no doubt, some catchy consumer items to match the smoke detectors and cordless vacuum cleaners born of NASA. Above all, the piloted space program is good propaganda. "Just as England went to North America and made it British, China needs to stake its claim in space," says Xu Shijie, a spacecraft designer who has worked on the Shenzhou...
...Kurds want to be able to teach their children their own language and heritage, but have been pressing for a disproportionate stake in national resources, according to Feldman...
...addition to being Harvard’s first home game of the season. Friday’s rematch is a league contest, meaning there is more at stake for the Crimson than just earning its second...
...critically at the benchmarks of their beliefs, be they religious or more broadly ideological, I am endorsing a temporary state of passionate confusion. This would mean remaining open to the options available and not committing to any one position, but also remaining as actively involved in the matters at stake as if in a state of firm conviction. Passionate confusion could include reading a book or two, but not equating issues of morality and emotion with facts and figures—that would be like reducing music to the little black dots on the page. They can only tell...
Ennis and 19 have market research on their side. As Davis suggests, avid music fans expect their stars to evolve. But the Idol audience, which has an unprecedented ownership stake in Aiken's career, is not made up of avid music fans. A disproportionate number of copies of This Is the Night were sold at Wal-Mart and Target stores, and a large number of those discs were picked up in the check-out lane, where Sanders positioned Idol merchandise to catch the eye of people who wouldn't think of stopping in the music section. "Our consumer...