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...certainly is. In large swaths of the U.S., from Cape Cod to Los Angeles, from San Francisco to Long Island, in New Orleans, Chicago, St. Louis and such depressed markets as Denver and Houston, signs abound that the long, bleak housing slump is easing. As the rebound percolates through one market after another, real estate agents, mortgage bankers and builders forecast a heartening home-buying surge this spring...
...fumaroles and other geysers, are colorful and smelly and make for a fascinating field lesson in geology. Finally, Yellowstone is known for its wildlife. It is a paradise for birders and one of the few places in the continental U.S. where grizzly bears still roam. And of course, buffalo abound...
...effort has been impeded because virtually no country capable of manufacturing centrifuges is willing to sell them to Iraq. Baghdad has thus embarked on a strategy of purchasing the technology and materials necessary to construct its own centrifuges. Tales abound of secretive transfers of nuclear- related technology -- some completed and some prevented -- between Western countries and Iraq. Two years ago, a British engineering firm in Coventry, Matrix-Churchill International, was found by British customs to have exported precision lathes and supplied training to Iraqi engineers. There was nothing illegal about either transaction. In March a joint Anglo-American sting operation...
...managed to hold together the worldwide coalition against Iraq. Strains and threats abound, and Saddam Hussein has made adroit attempts to exploit them. But fundamentally, the coalition is still united...
...meets-girl plots come from long ago, but charm and energy abound in the Caribbean fable Once On This Island, the Gershwin revival Oh, Kay! and a biography of Buddy Holly...