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...opening the country to foreign investment. "It took nine months - nine months!" Seif told TIME, stretching his long legs out in front of the couch under another portrait of his father. Whether Seif is Libya's future and his father its past is still unclear. But Gaddafi agreed to curtail Libya's nuclear-weapons program as well as pay damages to the families of those killed in the 1988 Pan Am airline bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, and the non-American survivors of the 1986 bombing of a West Berlin discothèque. As a result, President Bush announced he would...
...generation of Nintendo's Game Boy, the DS, which hit stores last week. Next year will bring more competition in handheld gaming, when Sony launches the PSP. Cell-phone makers like Nokia are also targeting kids with game gadgets. A recent Roper poll found that parents plan to curtail toy purchases this season in favor of gifts such as video games and consumer electronics...
Whether Seif is Libya's future and his father its past is still unclear. But Gaddafi agreed to curtail Libya's nuclear-weapons program as well as pay damages to the families of those killed in the 1988 Pan Am airline bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, and the non-American survivors of the 1986 bombing of a West Berlin discothčque. As a result, President Bush announced he would begin lifting economic sanctions against Libya. The European Union recently followed. "It was the right decision," says Seif of his father's new Western-friendly stance, "the right initiative...
...refocus dialogue. Specifically, two areas that are ripe for the taking are the debate on criminal justice and faith-based initiatives. The proposition in California that sought to reform their infamous “three strikes” laws was defeated, but the support may be present nationwide to curtail the growth of the prison-industrial complex. Curbing mass incarceration would certainly curry favor with black voters, and it wouldn’t even have to be cast as an explicitly racial issue. The unchecked growth of the penal system should be construed as a fiscal burden and ineffective crime...
...curbs export growth. But a new factor putting the brakes on Asia is China. Over the past two years, soaring demand from China for everything from steel to palm oil to semiconductors has been the engine driving Asian economies. Fear of overheating, however, has forced Beijing's policymakers to curtail bank lending and new investment. For next year, Morgan Stanley expects China to grow at a still swift 7%, but that's much slower than the 9.5% forecast for 2004, and sluggish enough to dampen growth throughout Asia. Japan might be hardest hit. Though a sparkling recovery there had fueled...