Results for “His Highness”

…gnizably different. And, by the way, it’s too anthropocentric to limit attention to Earth-like planets. Carl Sagan and his Cornell colleague Ed Salpeter, envisaged balloon-like creatures floating in the dense atmospheres of Jupiter-like planets. We should also be mindful that se...

…tewart Brand, whom I had met in New York in 1965 when he was a satellite member of the USCO group of artists. Now, with his wife Lois, a mathematician, he was preparing the first edition of The Whole Earth Catalog for publication. While Lois and the team did the heavy lifting on...

…may soon be understood as "consciousness hacking." He's on the board of Singularity University as one of the founders. (His father was a pioneer UCSF MD researcher of hallucinogens, I believe!) More to come in a day or so. Thanks! You're up late or you're not so east of my SF...

…t important energy developments of 2012: how countries are planning for Independence Day Bottom line: China has a long history of economic, political and military co-operation with Iran. China has greater economic linkages with the US, but for China, that fact does not negate th...

…ve up hope on the Israel-Palestine front, or on its efforts to contain Iran’s nuclear ambitions. But it is in Asia that history is unfolding — and where the US must define its long-term global strategy. Must the US, as Henry Kissinger suggests in his latest book On China, consid...

Robert Gates takes a moment to peer across the American horizon--and the view is dire: the U.S. is in danger of losing its supremacy on the global stage

he quickly demonstrated the diplomatic and political acumen he had acquired as he worked his way up through the intelligence community as the first career officer to become CIA director.

…ior fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington and a member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board. His most recent book is Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power (Random House

where US President Barack Obama has launched his latest initiative to kickstart a new Palestinian-Israeli peace process based on the two-state solution defined by the 1967 borders

which had been around his waist. Epstein_laid

built in 1740 and is now owned by Francois Pinault and used to exhibit his art collection. This is also where Amy Sacco transforms the lobby into her late-night

I join Pressman and his cast of The Moth Diaries for lunch at the Excelsior. Jonathan Demme comes by. He is here with the post-Katrina New Orleans-set documentary

…ns in technology have transformed the way we live, work and do business” said President Barack Obama last night, during his second State Of The Union address to the 112th Congress of the United States and 1.3 million Americans watching the speech from their homes. Read the full...

…om Peled and Bren, the hint of a smile on Motta’s face, and the meeting was over. Several days later, I was notified of his verdict. I would indeed be named the commander of the 401st Armored Brigade in the Sinai, and promoted to full colonel. Our base was a 15 miles from the ca...

…uilt a case which they believed showed that Epstein systematically paid teenage girls to recruit other teenage girls to his sex ring. However, as the investigation continued, they found that Epstein’s team had already spoken to key witnesses, suggesting that the financier would r...