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...counter at Pinky's, a downtown lunch spot, Mark Murphy, a heating technician, expresses anxiety about his relatives back in Jersey City, N.J., but he can't muster much concern about himself. Like a lot of Montanans, whose state ranks near the bottom in per capita income and near the top for residents with multiple jobs, he's preoccupied with the poor economy. "People here are just worried about feeding themselves and having a job," he says. This comment draws nods from diners on nearby stools. It has been a long winter--they are always out here--and the white...
...emotions well hidden. In the TIME/CNN poll, 77% said they think a war would make acts of terrorism in the U.S. more likely, and 63% said the prospect of war made them more fearful for the country. "No one wants to go to war," said Russ Alters, 60, in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, last week, expressing a sentiment that would have been just as common on the streets of Dusseldorf or Damascus. The Administration has always worried that public support for a war--especially one waged without backing from a broad international coalition--was soft. To gain maximum support...
Eleven Iraqi exiles, as well dressed as they are well connected, flew into Washington late last month for a private two-day meeting at a nondescript downtown hotel. The Iraqis--engineers and economists invited by U.S. officials and intimately familiar with their country's oil industry--spoke in English, not Arabic, for the benefit of American observers. Most of the Iraqis insisted on keeping their identities secret to avoid retaliation from Baghdad. But there was no mystery as to their purpose: the men had gathered to prepare for the struggle over Iraq's oil riches that will start...
...were lucky on Sept. 11: the most serious attack occurred in the one American place - downtown Manhattan - where cops and fire fighters are routinely trained to deal with catastrophe. Next time we might not be so lucky. Next time it might be anthrax in Las Vegas or a dirty bomb in Disney World. Next time the first response may be utter chaos. The unthinkable looms, and we seem incapable of thinking about...
...drizzly Saturday in downtown Aachen, a city in western Germany near the Belgian and Dutch borders. With Germany teetering on the edge of recession, most stores in the neighborhood are half-empty. But on a street called Löhergraben, one store is packed: Aldi. With brown speckled floor tiles, garish neon lights and a limited assortment of products in half-opened cardboard boxes, it's the least-inviting place around. But it's also the cheapest, and so the line to Aldi's two cash registers stretches the entire length of the store - about 30 people in all, their...