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...wind speeds of hurricanes to the lengths of fault lines--to help insurance firms estimate how often a disaster might strike and how much harm it might do. Then, in 1992, Hurricane Andrew struck, wreaking more havoc than anyone--except Clark and her small team at AIR Worldwide Corp.--had ever imagined possible. As the toll climbed past $15 billion, AIR's phones began ringing...
...there, according to an official, to provide "instant credibility." But retired U.S. appellate court Judge Laurence Silberman, the panel co-chair, is a Nixon-era friend of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's and Vice President Dick Cheney's. Panel member Henry Rowen, a Hoover Institution scholar and former Rand Corp. president, worked under Cheney at the Pentagon during the first Gulf War. In September 1990, with Cheney's backing, Rowen cooked up Operation Scorpion, a secret plan to invade Iraq from the west, go all the way to Baghdad and topple Saddam. (The plan went nowhere.) Another panel member, former...
...clearer mandate. This would put Washington in a tight spot. China, a nuclear power, has vowed to block independence by force if necessary, and the U.S. could not stand idly by if that happened. "The possibility of escalation over Taiwan," says James Mulvenon, an analyst at the Rand Corp., "is higher than over North Korea...
...defense contractors who are making increased profits as a result of the war. As much as one-third of the monthly $3.9 billion cost of the occupation of Iraq is going to independent contractors, and Harvard has tens of millions of dollars invested in companies including Halliburton, Northrop Corp. and JP Morgan Chase & Co., among others...
...delivery, IT, and finance will find it easier to compete in Australian markets. Most U.S. companies will be exempt from screening by the Foreign Investment Review Board. American intellectual-property rights (such as copyrights, patents and trademarks) have been significantly improved - a windfall for media conglomerates such as News Corp, Disney and Time Warner, parent of the company that publishes Time...