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...officials as well as allegations that cost of living indices have been manipulated to camouflage President Kirchner's failure to grapple with inflation. His wife, the new President, will have to deal with those issues as well as others she chose not to confront during the campaign, including the demand by labor unions for wage increases, plans to generate more foreign investment in Argentina, the country's increasing energy shortages and the rising tide of urban crime...
...block is under construction next door to Babkir's store, and scores of tiny Korean taxis dodge donkey carts in El Fasher's sand-covered streets. Other shops sell jars of the powdered milk drink Ovaltine, and tubs of Camembert cheese bearing made-in-France labels. "There's high demand ever since the African Union and the aid agencies came here," says Babkir, whose prices rise when the rainy season turns the roads leading here from Khartoum into quagmires...
...Although the Iranian officials with whom U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker has met in recent months have shown little flexibility, Crocker has lately begun to suspect that Iran may have begun to heed U.S. demand that it desist from supporting and training Shi'ite militia fighters. Speaking to reporters in Baghdad, Crocker cited a virtual cessation of mortar and rocket attacks on the Green Zone - strikes that military officials had claimed were becoming more accurate because of help the shooters were getting from Iran. Crocker also pointed to the announcement by Shi'ite militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr calling...
...solutions that we are not prepared to put in place [Oct. 22]. It will require the determined involvement of governments to invest in research and development, create incentives for production of alternative energy and curb our addiction to oil. We need to reduce consumption, recycle and demand that our politicians take action. I am convinced that we will see more debate than substantial change in the near future, but I hope we will not debate the subject to death. Lorenzo Rodriguez, El Paso, Texas...
...institutions in exchange for scholarships. There could be even more civilian docs in the military, thanks to the "doctor draft," a 1987 congressional authorization that lets the military call up civilian doctors in case of a wartime shortage. Preparing doctors for the possibility of service would not have to demand much of a med school's curriculum. "It doesn't have to be a full class," says Boyd. "Even five lunchtime talks would make the difference...