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El ataque sobre Libia lo dirigen todavía dos mandos militares distintos. Las decisiones políticas las toma una reunión de más de 29 naciones de cuatro continentes. Los objetivos los fija la ONU. Este es el mundo cuando Estados Unidos no dirige, o dirige tímidamente, como es el caso. El resultado...

WATCHING the coverage of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station unfold on TV, I was reminded of my own close call with a nuclear emergency. In 1988 I was a newly minted shift technical adviser at the South Texas Project, a power plant near the Gulf Coast. Hurricane Gilbert, at the...

General Motors said Thursday that it would temporarily shut a truck plant in Louisiana because it could not get enough Japanese-made parts, the first in what analysts say could be widespread disruptions at auto plants in North America because of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis half a world...

Tenía un maestro de física en la secundaria que negaba la existencia de Dios a capa y espada, y siempre hacía burla de una niña testigo de Jehová que usaba falda y cabellos largos. Cierto día , el único hijo del profesor, un niñito de dos años, se enfermó de una rara enfermedad y a los...

To the decorating-obsessed among us, John and Sherry Petersik have a gig we dream about: They fix up their home, blog about it and get paid. In the past weeks, they furnished and accessorized an empty guest room and adjoining bathroom, painted wooden ceiling beams in their living room, scored a pair...

Can a man with a tiny electronic device hack into the multitude of jumbo screens in Times Square and play videos from his iPhone? Maybe, if you believe a YouTube video that has been watched by more than half a million viewers in the last four days. The video was posted on YouTube on Monday under the...

Japan, a country lulled by the reassuring rhythms of order and predictability, has been jolted by earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis into an unsettling new reality: lack of control. In a nation where you can set your watch by a train’s arrival and a conductor apologizes for even a one-minute...

On Jan. 20, 1961, John Kennedy delivered his rousing Inaugural Address. But this speech was preceded, as William Galston of the Brookings Institution has reminded us, by an equally important speech: Dwight Eisenhower’s farewell address. Kennedy’s speech was an idealistic call to action. Eisenhower’s...

Hace algunos ayeres, Brozo y Alex Lora eran personajes que tenían ganado el respeto y simpatía de buena parte de mi círculo social, estudiantes de prepa y amigos. El primero por ser burlón, sarcástico y directo en su forma de expresarse de los políticos en un tiempo de transición, rompió...

Count me among those who were glad to see the documentary “Inside Job” win an Oscar. The film reminded us that the financial crisis of 2008, whose aftereffects are still blighting the lives of millions of Americans, didn’t just happen — it was made possible by bad behavior on the part of...