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...Indian Ocean could pummel key Iraqi targets with long-range cruise missiles. Once Iraq's air defenses are crushed, more vulnerable F-14s and F-18s from three or four Navy carriers by then in the region could begin striking additional targets. The speed of the air war would depend in part on which neighboring countries--Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Turkey, Saudi Arabia--allowed allied jets to launch from their territory...
...believed bin Laden had died of a kidney ailment. And when he's not declaring bin Laden dead, he has joined a long list of U.S. officials who have been insisting that the terrorist leader was not the ultimate prize. "We've always said that al-Qaeda did not depend on Osama bin Laden," Rumsfeld said last week. Yet the Defense chief also acknowledged "that tape was intended to be a very clear threat." In time, we will learn how crucial bin Laden's existence is to al-Qaeda's. But in symbolic terms, the value of getting him--dead...
...TRIPS) Agreement, and many activist groups, including Oxfam, Student Global Aids Campaign and the Harvard Aids Coalition, are concerned he will push for patent protections. This move would prevent the manufacture of the generic medications that millions of people in the developing world, where patented medicines are prohibitively expensive, depend on in order to survive...
...already coated in the gunge that began leaking from the single-hulled Prestige when it foundered in huge waves and gale-force winds on Nov. 13. When the Greek-owned tanker finally broke in two and sank, it took with it the livelihoods of 5,000 people who depend on small-scale fishing in the area. Spanish officials, who have banned fishing from El Ferrol and A Coruna in the north to Cape Finisterre in the south, estimated last week's damages at $42 million and climbing. Now the worry is that fierce storms still churning in the Atlantic will...
Rein realized that the best and brightest in China were failing to get into Harvard when he helped some Chinese friends prepare their applications. In China, where university admissions depend solely on test scores, Rein found that students with perfect or near-perfect scores do not realize these represent only one component of an American school’s application. He told his friends that they needed to show leadership, motivation and a desire to “change the world...