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AT&T announced it would acquire McCaw Cellular Communications, the nation's largest cellular-telephone company, for $12.6 billion. The pending deal has prompted antitrust concerns as Ma Bell hopes to stake its place in the booming wireless communications business, bypassing the Baby Bell systems that now handle cellular calls...
Woodruff's personal tragedy in Tbilisi underscores what dangers can lurk even in altruism. Many Russians are acutely suspicious that Washington aims to block a return of their influence in areas they long controlled. Russia's neighbors wonder what help the U.S. can offer in defusing their ethnic problems and...
"We try to help new faculty acquire housing here comparable to their housing where they are coming from," Keller said.
Child prostitution is no less a product of poverty and drugs in the U.S. than it is in Colombia. Estimates of the number of U.S. prostitutes under age 18 range from 90,000 to 300,000. "The combined impact of the deterioration of the cities and the drug epidemic is...
However firm its stance, the U.S. cannot entirely eliminate the ambitions and fears that prod nations to acquire weapons of mass destruction. Washington could not, even if it wanted to, guarantee Arab states against Israel, India against China, Pakistan against India or Iran against Iraq. Some of them have the...