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...Serbia has aided aggression against Bosnia's Muslims and Croats every step of the way in the interest of carving out a Greater Serbia. The Yugoslav breakup has spawned atrocities on all sides, but over the long haul this war, like Iraq's swallowing of Kuwait, is the fault of one big bully...
...your anger aimed at the proper targets? The Washington gridlock you so rightly condemn isn't only the fault of greedy, comfortably entrenched politicians. It is also your fault, if you have ever deliberately voted for one party in the White House and for the other in Congress in order to dilute their powers. Your complaint that politicians don't listen to the people is wrong; they listen too much. They are only too aware that you won't stand for unpopular and painful programs, that you won't reward politicians for courage, if it hurts...
With so many applicants to choose from, many employers have become picky to a fault. "The companies that are looking for people right now want God," says Jack Curphey, president of Curphey & Malkin Associates, a Los Angeles placement firm. "They want the perfect person, someone who can bring something to the table immediately. Before, if you had a good background and a good reputation, the company would train you to sell their product. No more...
While neither of the Sunday quakes hit along the San Andreas Fault, where experts believe the Big One will eventually strike, both were on faults that intersect it. That could put more pressure on the San Andreas and hasten the arrival of a mega-quake -- a devastating prospect, since the San Andreas runs through the populous Los Angeles basin...
Some geologists see last week's quakes as evidence of a new, major fault in the making. The San Andreas marks a dividing line where two continental plates -- rock pancakes tens of miles thick and hundreds or thousands of miles across that make up the earth's surface -- are grinding past each other. As the plate carrying Los Angeles heads north toward Alaska, it scrapes against the plate carrying most of the rest of the U.S., sticking for years and then suddenly spurting forward. Near Palm Springs, the San Andreas Fault makes a jog to the west, suggesting that...