Birth Pangs for A New Beijing: With the Olympics a year away, China is overhauling Beijing on a scale the world has never seen. It's not only the spectacular new sporting venues, but a redesign of parks, transport networks and central thoroughfares even grander than Haussmann's 18th-century redo of Paris. But will it yield a capital with a distinctly Chinese flair? IRAQ: Why half the suicide bombers are Saudis; JAPAN: The rural gambit may backfire on Ozawa; EUROPE: France offers up an American-styleFirst Lady; BUSINESS: Murdoch will leave his hands off Dow. Yeah, right; SCIENCE: The global-warming denial machine still hums; SOCIETY: Will self-analyzing moms just shut up, please? BOOKS: Fifty years on, Kerouac's road looks a lot sadder; MOVIES: 'Rocket Science,' and other films that aren't; DEPARTMENTS: PERISCOPE; PERSPECTIVES; WORLD VIEW; THE GOOD LIFE; THE LAST WORD.
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