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...think tank, denounces the "irrelevance of our recent foreign policy, and even its victories, to the concerns of most Americans." The U.S., he says, should junk the idea of "exercising something called leadership" and "insulate" itself from the disasters of the Third World. He would also have the U.S. abandon "overseas missions that, however appealing, bear only marginally on protecting and enriching the nation." The list of activities he believes so qualify includes "promoting peace, stability, democracy and development around the world" and "protecting human rights...
Sometimes natural disaster has a sunny side. Last summer raging fires consumed 98,000 acres of spruce around Tok in the Alaskan interior. But this year villagers are harvesting a bumper crop of morels, wild mushrooms springing up with abandon on the charred forest floor. The delicacy, which sells in specialty shops for $14 a pound fresh and as much as $200 a pound dried, is in great demand in tony restaurants. When Tok folk learned they could make as much as $20 an hour gathering morels for wholesale buyers from Seattle and Vancouver, "they went crazy," says Aaron Schutt...
Lloyd's may yet be forced to abandon its unique principle of unlimited liability. That would immediately attract companies as investors, since firms are prohibited from investing in anything where liability is not defined. A Lloyd's task force is preparing a year-end report that will address this subject. The committee may conclude that unlimited liability is akin to a black hole -- something that no underwriter, not even one from Lloyd's, can contemplate covering...
Gray stressed that he was leaving to devote more time to his family and the Philadelphia church that he pastors. Since few people in Washington ever voluntarily abandon a powerful position, his hasty departure sparked speculation about his real motives. He declined to comment on rumors that investigations of his finances have driven him away, and the Justice Department also refused to comment. The more plausible explanation is financial: leaving Congress will enable Gray to become a member of corporate boards and greatly increase his income...
...accord, permitting U.S. forces to stay after the old agreement expires on Sept. 16, was "within reach." But then Mount Pinatubo, a volcano that had been dormant for 600 years, erupted and accomplished what Filipino nationalists had failed to do since independence: force the U.S. military to abandon Clark, which is eight miles east of the cone. Both sides admit the explosions threw negotiations into limbo...