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...would that go down at home? So far, the travails in Iraq do not seem to have dimmed Americans' sense that their troops are doing a good job there or diminished Bush's popularity. But what would happen if the trickle of deaths turned into a flood? "It is natural to kidnap American soldiers because they have occupied us," says Tihan Alwan, a village elder standing outside the mosque at Halabsa, a town close to the place from which the two American soldiers were abducted last week. "Not only kidnap," adds his friend Wadah al-Hamdani. "We're going...
Biotech stocks soared in 1990-91 amid a flood of early-stage drug hype and IPOs. The vast majority of the drugs and companies soon failed, and the stocks crashed. Another bubble surfaced in 1999-2000. While everyone was focused on the run-up in Internet stocks, biotech shares rose twice as fast, largely driven by excitement over the mapping of the human genome. In the 18 months before March 2000, the American Stock Exchange's biotech index rose 563% while the NASDAQ rose 238%. Both plunged in the next two years...
...hour radio program called "Uniting to Help Each Other" pulls in 800,000 listeners during peak hours by serving as a proxy people's advocate. An errant spouse? The radio station will dispatch a therapist to provide counseling at the couple's home. A sick puppy? Callers will flood the line with recommendations on the best veterinarian. And that's only the beginning. The station helps callers find wallets left in the back of taxis and notifies the fire station when there's a blaze in the neighborhood. It also badgers hospitals to admit patients who don't have adequate...
...citizens gathered in the steamy heat of their shacks, they heard then police chief and future President Fidel Ramos boast on the radio that the military had abandoned Marcos to join the people's cause. An exaggeration, to be sure. But the crow of victory prompted thousands to flood the streets and give the people-power revolution the critical mass it needed to succeed. So, too, in Thailand six years later did radio stations help mobilize hundreds of thousands of demonstrators, who forced the resignation of a military commander who had seized control of the country. "In many ways...
...true that Hu's government during the SARS epidemic displayed a degree of responsiveness not seen under previous leaderships. This generated a flood of praise from around China, and the whispers of "tame puppet" that were floating around faded away. But the true litmus tests have yet to come. One such test will occur the next time leadership is tempted to use force to suppress dissent. Among post-Mao rulers, Deng Xiaoping stumbled in both 1979 (crushing the Democracy Wall movement) and 1989 (the Tiananmen Square massacre), while Jiang Zemin failed in 1999 against the meditation group Falun Gong. Another...