A Superpower Made Ordinary
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The World Cup isn't the only field that America can't dominate
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Switzerland is famous for its neutrality. It sat out both world wars. It's a refuge for international finance.
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'The Incredibles' twists the superhero formula in winning ways.
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It finds itself becoming increasingly entwined with the powers it once shunned, particularly the United States.
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NEW YORK - "No one would have believed ... that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligence greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own."  "The War of the Worlds," the classic H.G...
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Particles that capture infrared light could allow everyday objects to tap into an under-exploited source of energy.
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Americans know a good deal when they see it. Today a group of  leading scientists and practitioners from several fields -- agriculture,  medicine, economics, education, engineering -- is making a proposal to  the world. If  rich and poor countries will follow through on the promises  they have made over the past five years  to fight extreme poverty and disease -- and rely on the best science and technology in doing  so -- the world can save millions of lives and extricate hundreds of millions of  its poorest people from the trap of extreme poverty. The cost is a mere 50 cents out of every $100 of rich-world income in the coming decade.
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The world view of the US superpower has seldom been as low as since President George W. Bush launched the invasion of Iraq without explicit UN approval.
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The world Rand wanted her heroes to build now seems far from revolutionary; it can even seem somewhat quaint, an almost retro fantasy.
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It may not look monumental. But the fact that it's happening is significant.
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The Apple Macintosh makes its debut. But, despite outward appearances, all is not rosy along the Infinite Loop.
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The U.S. continues to lead the world in nanotechnology research, but the impact of the governmentÂs investment in the field is impossible to quantify.
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Its presence at the talks is not matched by any leverage
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Comment is free: Timothy Garton Ash: An interdependent world faces many challenges. Britain should promote a coalition of democracies to tackle them.
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People, even rulers, sometimes permit themselves to do things they have always wanted to do but never dared. This is the situation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who realized that he had an unrepeatable
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically "...newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies".. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural; especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization. read more
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The natural world was the focus of much nanotechnology and energy research. Robots, meanwhile, were learning to mimic crabs and bees.