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...blasts said it has ties to al-Qaeda. "It is part of a bigger project that entails confronting America and Israel and, after that, nonmilitant Arab regimes," says Egyptian political analyst Hala Mustafa. If al-Qaeda is moving back into a global operational mode, it would a be a blow to the Bush Administration, says former White House deputy homeland-security adviser Richard Falkenrath, because "we'd all come to believe that we had decimated the al-Qaeda leadership." --By Daniel Kadlec. Reported by Timothy J. Burger, Scott MacLeod, Elaine Shannon and Lindsay Wise
...textile and electronics exporters, because they have narrow margins and little power to adjust their prices. The pinch will also be felt by the many foreign companies operating mainland factories. Tony Cheng, a Taiwan businessman who runs a factory in Shenzhen making Christmas ornaments, calls the revaluation "a big blow...
...Richard Lugar established in 1991 to help Russia secure its inventory of tactical nuclear weapons, which many fear has not been under close control since the demise of the Soviet Union. "These are weapons that could be transported by one person, put in the back of a truck and blow up a large part of a city," Nunn said recently. He continued, "We don't know how many weapons the Russians have or where they're located. We hope they do, but we're not confident of that...
...thrower with a pleasant face. But the choice could indicate where the President comes down between the two species of conservatives who have been jockeying for position on the Supreme Court-- those who remain committed to the sanctity of the institution and its traditions and those who want to blow...
...this young magazine editor to talk about Islam's lost tradition of critical thinking and reasoned debate. But we never got to that topic. Instead, we got stuck on the July 7 bombings in London and what might have compelled four young, British-raised, observant Muslim men to blow themselves up while taking innocent others with them...