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...highlight of Terry Benca's week in the Boot Camp class in August was when one of the chefs complimented Benca on an apple-ginger sauce he made for a pork medallion entree. "I felt like a schoolkid; I was so excited," says Benca, 56, an engineer who lives in Allegany, N.Y. "I couldn't wait to tell my wife...
...their surveillance cameras 180°, so they pointed toward the outlying roadways and woods. And a Virginia prosecutor, lacking a suspect, talked to TV cameras about two different ways he could try to impose the death penalty on the sniper, should he ever be caught alive. --With reporting by Melissa August, Perry Bacon Jr., Eric Roston, Elaine Shannon, Karen Tumulty and Michael Weisskopf/Washington and Amanda Bower and Jodie Morse/New York
Worth raising a glass to, right? But all last week's election in Brazil got from Wall Street was a Bronx cheer. The Brazilian currency, the real, continued a slide that, apart from a brief rally after an International Monetary Fund (IMF) rescue package last August, has gone on all year. In the markets, interest rates on Brazilian bonds (a proxy for the extent to which Wall Street regards investment in Brazil as a risk) are running more than 20 percentage points above comparable U.S. securities...
...Charity. On Sept. 5, 1998, the first anniversary of the nun's death, Monica was suffering abdominal pain caused, she believed, by a tumor. But the purported tumor vanished when Monica applied a medallion with an image of the late Albanian nun to the site of her pain. In August 2001, Monica's miracle was supplied to the Vatican as part of the fast-tracking of Mother Teresa's canonization. Two weeks ago, the Vatican recognized the 1998 miracle, beginning the process of Mother Teresa's beatification, a major step toward sainthood...
...Money still gets pumped into oil and gas?Indonesia's largest export industry?but there are considerable operational risks. In August, Caltex Pacific Indonesia, a subsidiary of ChevronTexaco, was forced to turn over management of an oil field in Sumatra to a joint venture between a local government and Pertamina, the country's big domestic producer. Caltex ran the field for 30 years, but when its production contract expired, the company was unable to get a standard extension. Under Suharto, Jakarta controlled the country's natural resource industries. But now, power is devolving to the provinces and local politicians want...