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...terror, they're throwing mud again the wall to see what sticks, not really understanding who the enemy actually is," said Ron Bonjean, spokesman for House Speaker Dennis Hastert. "It's a political ploy to get attention." Republicans take solace in the fact that the President has a bigger microphone, and is about to enter a season where the nation is focused on the days when he was at his peak...
...camp is burning in slow motion. While scant food supplies are a big problem at this hastily-built settlement at Anaka, a 2-km-square mess of tightly packed huts protected by government soldiers in the north of Uganda, a bigger one is spontaneous combustion. Here, [an error occurred while processing this directive] explains a leader in the camp, where some 23,000 people displaced by the region's civil war make their homes, at least one thatched hut ignites every day. So many are burning, in fact, that most residents remove their belongings when they leave each morning...
...turnaround could go a long way toward helping Esprit maintain its frenetic pace. "Because growth rates have started to slow down, they need to get into bigger markets where their penetration is low," says Macquarie retail analyst Ramiz Chelat in Hong Kong. Hello, U.S.A. By 2002, sales had fallen to $150 million, from $700 million in 1987, according to Macquarie. Krogner got control of Esprit's American business when Ying bought the U.S. trademark in 2002. (The company is now publicly traded; Ying owned 15.8% as of the end of 2005.) As part of the acquisition, Krogner forced a shutdown...
...return to normalcy, a mark of resilience? Or does it too mark a kind of loss? In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion. And yet five years later, more than two-thirds of Americans say they are unhappy with how things are going--exactly the opposite of the weeks after the attacks, when people were crushed, but hopeful. We saw back then what we were capable...
...especially in the low-oxygen environment of the oceans, mercury is consumed by bacteria that add a bit of carbon to convert it to methylmercury, a metabolically stickier form that stays in the body a long time. That is bad news for the food chain, since every time a bigger animal eats a smaller animal, it consumes a heavy dose of its prey's mercury load. That's why such large predatory fish as shark, swordfish, mackerel, tilefish and albacore tuna are so heavily contaminated. Less publicized but still problematic is toxic mercury vapor, which can be odorlessly emitted from...