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...More important, oil prices may hit $100 or more per barrel if Iran embargoes its oil exports or bottles up oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation. And the U.S.'s huge budget deficit, compounded by war, inflation and soaring oil prices, would make a nasty dent in George W. Bush's image in his own country. Kangayam R. Narasimhan Chennai, India...
...TIME: Aren't regional and local action like the mayors' and governors' initiatives mostly window dressing? Can they really make a dent in carbon output if Washington doesn't do something...
...More important, oil prices may hit $100 or more per bbl. if Iran embargoes its oil exports or bottles up oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation. And the U.S.'s huge budget deficit, compounded by war, inflation and soaring oil prices, would make a nasty dent in George W. Bush's image in his own country. Kangayam R. Narasimhan Madras, India Your cover story gave an apocalyptic view of Iraq and perhaps a plausible excuse for Bush's antagonists to smirk. But Iraq will come out of this quagmire just as the U.S. did after its civil...
...numbers and infinity. A country song, Nickels and Dimes, introduces us to a woman trying to account for the cost of a love that isn't showing much return. "She wonders where all of the interest went/ She knows it won't break her, but it sure leaves a dent." Learn to Let Go is more philosophical than narrative, but who knew Buddhist thought had so much jazz and funk in it? The CD is an impressive achievement for the 32-year-old Torontonian, who spends her days traveling in a van full of instruments making house calls to teach...
...rate of inflation. What's more, the agency's overall allotment this year is only $16.8 billion out of a total federal budget measured in the trillions. And though every federal agency faces hard choices to make ends meet, the missions NASA is scrapping make the least fiscal dent at the greatest scientific price. It can take two or even three interplanetary probes to pay for just one shuttle flight, which in turn is flying in the first place only to service the space station, which in turn does... nothing...