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...Civilizations Avi Matalon. Matalon said that Israel is fighting a war on two fronts, both against the Palestinians and against those Israelis who refuse to see the world in realistic terms. To him, radical Israelis inhabit the same ideological side as the Islamic fundamentalists. “The danger now is if we’re not careful we will wake up in a Jewish Iran,” Matalon said. “I wish that were my problem,” retorted Wisse. “I wish I worried about a Jewish Iran. I worry about...
...Derivatives Perhaps the most profitable and certainly the most arcane investments of the year were something called derivative securities. Derivatives -- abstractions of stocks, bonds and futures -- are a huge business ($4.5 trillion in contracts) but pose a danger to world financial markets because of lack of regulation. As such, they are often called the junk bonds...
...self-victimizing valium addict after self-absorbed athlete. To this day, my friends are still running back to the same foul-mouthed failures who only text after 2 a.m. and won’t wash their bed-sheets unless we provide the Shout.Some think it’s simply danger that draws us to these duds, and others claim it’s repressed angst. I’m quite sure, however, that it’s not the hint of rebellion but the hope of rehabilitation that keeps us coming back for more. See, in truth, I don?...
...assign blame? if we expended half as much effort in attempting to learn from the Katrina disaster as we have in trying to find whom or what to blame, more people would be out of danger and beginning to rebuild their lives. Judith Heineman Phoenix, Arizona...
...announcing plans today to prepare the nation for combating a future worldwide wave of bird flu, President Bush used vocabulary and tactics that are familiar from his confrontation with global terrorism. "Our country has been given fair warning of this danger to our homeland-and time to prepare," the President said during a jaunt up to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Heavy spending has been a cornerstone of Bush's 9/11 response, and he geared up for a new threat by asking Congress for $7.1 billion in emergency funding for vaccines and antiviral medicines-even more than...