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There are plenty of reasons people might accept that the government could have a record of every time they call their mother, their doctor or their paramour. Maybe 9/11 put security above all the country's other values. Maybe, as the reality-television craze suggests, most citizens don't cherish privacy as much as civil libertarians do. Or maybe Americans figure that if Verizon and Ma Bell can keep track of whom they call--and that, in exchange for a discount card, Safeway gets to compile a database of what they eat and Barnes & Noble of what they read--there...
...Iran wanted to step back from the brink? "All prophets speak of peace and tranquility--based on monotheism, justice and respect for human dignity," Ahmadinejad wrote. "Do you not think that if all of us abide by these principles, we can overcome the world's problems? Will you not accept this invitation...
...will have to book another charge for that in 2007. GM's various cost-cutting moves should boost the bottom line, resulting in net income of $1.6 billion next year, Bruynesteyn estimates. Yet the healthier GM's finances appear, the more difficult it will be to persuade workers to accept big wage and benefits cuts in the next contract...
...soil, because of international fears the process would permit Tehran to develop weapons-grade fissile material, Rohani said Iran would agree only "to negotiate with the IAEA and states concerned about the scope and timing of its industrial-scale uranium enrichment." And while Rohani promised that "Iran would accept an IAEA verifiable cap on enrichment limit of reactor grade uranium" on Iranian territory, that would not meet the concerns of the U.S. and most of its European allies...
...Rohani also pledged that "Iran would accept an IAEA verifiable cap on the production of UF6 - uranium hexafluoride, which is used for enrichment." Finally, Rohani promised that "Iran and the IAEA would agree on terms of the continuous presence of inspectors in Iran to verify credibly that no diversion takes place...