The textbook shorthand is that a single assassination started World War I. That is true in the narrowest sense and misleading in every other one. The killing of one man in Sarajevo lit the fuse, but the explosives had been stacked up for decades — in arms races, treaty obligations, colonial rivalries and national grudges […]
One assassination lit the fuse in Sarajevo. Decades of arms races, treaty obligations and colonial rivalry are why the whole continent went up with it.
Fifty years after the Soweto uprising, South Africa’s own unemployment and inequality numbers raise an uncomfortable question about how much of its promise has actually arrived.
Fifty years after the Soweto uprising, South Africa's own unemployment and inequality numbers ask how much of its promise has actually arrived.
Long before satellites, a small community of acoustic engineers built the first real picture of the ocean floor — and one physicist’s name became attached to the instrument that made it possible. The photograph is unassuming: a middle-aged man in a suit, standing beside a boxy metal instrument roughly the size of a large radio
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Long before satellites, a small community of acoustic engineers built the first real picture of the ocean floor.