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Sending in G.I.s to help disband Abu Sayyaf would deprive these cells of a useful bit of real estate. But it wouldn't eradicate the international danger they pose. Rooting them out is a job for the undercover boys. The FBI has beefed up its Manila office because, says an official, "the threat level is going up." It is worried that Asians might step in as suicide bombers now that airport security is targeting Arabs. And the 650 incoming G.I.s could provide nice cover for other covert operatives, such as CIA paramilitaries. "As we've said all along, what...
...uncertainties. They can't afford not to. The potential profits--though far off--are just too large, and so is the risk of being left behind. It's a cliche, but it's nonetheless apt to note that in written Chinese, the same ideogram is used to express both danger and opportunity. As Sy Sternberg, chairman of New York Life Insurance, puts it, "If we got 1% of the Chinese population, we would double the number of policies we have." That has been the dream of global executives ever since the first glimmers of an opening by China...
...That time, the military refused to flip as they had during EDSA II. That may have saved her presidency, and quite possibly her life, but it further cemented a political role for the military?no small danger in a country where talk of a coup is always in the air. Her key backer, General Angelo Reyes, the army's Chief of Staff, was installed as Arroyo's Defense Secretary. And though she insists the military is "truly professional, not political," she's been careful not to cross them. With the U.S. opening a second front, in Mindanao...
...average number of annual treatment visits declined from 12.6 to fewer than nine. The fact is, pills are a lot less expensive than therapists, which may explain why managed-care outfits make it so hard for patients to get the therapy they feel they need. The danger, critics say, is that we throw pills at problems rather than grapple with the underlying causes...
...Another danger arises because animals carry viruses that are harmless to their hosts but can turn deadly in another species. If such a virus hitchhiked aboard transplanted tissue, it could not only infect its new host but also spread to other humans--much as HIV did when it jumped from monkeys...