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...avoid those consequences, U.S. and European cooperation is essential. Ultimately, it will be the Americans who decide how and when to make a meal of Saddam. But if the Europeans are fed up with their role as dishwashers-in-chief, maybe they should set the table instead
...legitimacy as rulers. They had the opportunity to crush them many times before but chose not to." Mohammed al Odad is a government minister in Abha, but he is dismayed. "The fundamentalists have total control of the masses," he says. "It gets worse and worse." Parents say they are fed up with the Wahhabist school curriculum, which rears students on a diet of intolerance. A typical passage from a sixth-grade history textbook vows that "Arabs and Muslims will succeed, God willing, in beating the Jews and their allies." Even a member of the royal family concedes...
...that they exist in their own inflated orbit. After all, more than a million jobs were lost, and homes still sold at a record pace. Greenspan was worried enough to study the issue, as have numerous other economists, including Kevin Hassett for his new book, Bubbleology. But like the Fed chief, Hassett concluded that the rise in home prices made sense even through the recession. "A bubble is when there is no right answer," Hassett says. "In this case, there is no mystery...
...more reason: an analysis of nearly 50 studies involving 150,000 women in 30 countries found that the number of children women bear and how long they breast-feed may help determine their chance of developing breast cancer. Women who had six or seven children and breast-fed each for two years had cancer rates less than half those of women who had two or three children and breast-fed them for only two months. But women with few children can still reduce their cancer risk 5% by breast-feeding their babies another six months--no mean feat...
...legitimacy as rulers. They had the opportunity to crush them many times before but chose not to." Mohammed al Odad is a government minister in Abha, but he is dismayed. "The fundamentalists have total control of the masses," he says. "It gets worse and worse." Parents say they are fed up with the Wahhabist school curriculum, which rears students on a diet of intolerance. A typical passage from a sixth-grade history textbook vows that "Arabs and Muslims will succeed, God willing, in beating the Jews and their allies." Even a member of the royal family concedes...