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...Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern Britain. To Cannadine, the story of modern Britain is "the feeling that things were no longer as great or as stable or as splendid as they had once been." As empire and prosperity slipped away, a few voices rose to stem history's tide. He assesses the efforts of comic-opera geniuses Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as novelist Ian Fleming, whose agent James Bond was a one-man antidote to the Cold War. Also Margaret Thatcher, for whom decline was a moral question but whose "hectoring intolerance proved her undoing...
...will be vigilant," al-Jubeir promised in Washington. "We will be determined. And we will be merciless when it comes to dealing with terrorism and those who perpetrate it." But given the relentless tide of skepticism on Capitol Hill and in the media, al-Jubeir has his work...
SOLVENTS On gravel beaches, where oil sinks and rises with the tide, aggressive microorganisms can be used to help break down the oil and disperse it. Biodegradable chemicals such as water-soluble soap are even more effective. Long term, a combination of enzymes, organisms and nutrients can accelerate the oil's degradation...
...Hindu nation, read the press releases Modi distributed, had been lost when 16th century Islamic Mughal conquerors built a mosque over the temple's ruins. The demolition of the mosque and the restoration of the temple was henceforth the core concern of virtually every Indian. A nationalist tide of wounded pride swept India. Tension between Hindus and Muslims soared. RSS membership hit 4.5 million, and the BJP burst onto center stage. In December 1992, in a spectacular demonstration of religious fervor, a crowd of Hindu demonstrators broke down fences protecting the mosque, climbed onto its three domes and, within hours...
...past decade and generates $1 billion a year in export revenue. "A film of feed leftover made of fish oil, animal fat and transgenic soybean oil floats on the water around the salmon farms," says Ronald Pfeil, 67, a cattle farmer in Chile's remote Aysen region. "When the tide is low, the beaches stink...