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...Pleas by the United Nations to save the giant Buddhas were ignored by the Taliban. So were offers made by India and the Metropolitan Museum in New York to buy the statues and have them removed, chunk by chunk, to safety. The Taliban vowed to press ahead with the demolition job; earlier, they drilled a hole in the larger statue's head so they could pack in dynamite there and around its feet, toppling the 1,400 year old colossus. The smaller statue was already badly damaged: as a cruel joke, Taliban militiamen had fired a rocket at its groin...
...President plans to devote his contingency fund to as yet unbudgeted policy goals. He estimates $156 billion will go to reform Medicare. And though he won't give numbers while Don Rumsfeld conducts his review of the Pentagon, a large chunk will surely pay for modernizing the military and developing a national missile defense. Bush says there will be plenty left to cover natural disasters like earthquakes and economic disasters like the budget gaps that will open up if the surplus falls short of projections...
...that ETS is poised to join. After a rough decade of losses caused by a heavy investment in computer-based exams, ETS last year--for the first time in its history--hired a businessman, not an educator, to run the company. And looking to seize a large chunk of the pre-college testing market, it launched a for-profit subsidiary, ETS K-12 Works. ETS president Kurt Landgraf, former CEO of DuPont Pharmaceuticals, hopes to double ETS's overall revenues within five years, to more than $1 billion a year. "The future for testing is in K-12," says Landgraf...
...next stops are trickier. American's proposed purchase of a chunk of US Airways and its attendant asset-shuffling with United Airlines would leave American and United sharing half of the U.S. air travel market. Continental, Northwest and Delta have already squawked that such a state of affairs would force them to seek combinations of their own, most likely with each other. And thus would the present Big Seven airlines quickly become the Big Three...
...After a rough decade of losses caused by a heavy investment in computer-based exams, ETS last year - for the first time in its history - hired a businessman, not an educator, to run the company. And looking to seize a large chunk of the pre-college testing market, it launched a for-profit subsidiary, ETS K-12 Works. ETS president Kurt Landgraf, former CEO of DuPont Pharmaceuticals, hopes to double ETS's overall revenues within five years, to more than $1 billion a year. "The future for testing is in K-12," says Landgraf. "It's the biggest initiative...