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...recession is all but certain. Yet economically speaking, things haven't changed that much. We were in a severe slowdown and heading for recession before the attacks. Events will unfold faster now, deepening the impact. That should be your main concern. But don't fret about the economy's ability to rebound; it will, possibly even sooner and with more force than would have otherwise been the case. While waiting out the slump, here's how to survive...
...sure, many public schools--and their baleful unions and wretched bureaucrats, their rigid rules and we-know-best manner--have done a lot to hurt themselves. But as the most committed parents leave, the schools may falter more, giving the larger community yet another reason to fret over their condition. "A third of our support for schools comes from property taxes," says Ray Simon, director of the Arkansas department of education. "If a large number of a community's parents do not fully believe in the school system, it gets more difficult to pass those property taxes. And that directly...
Almost as soon as the United Nations announced that it had developed a figure for the cost of the fight against AIDS in Africa earlier this spring, Washington started to fret. The number, the Administration said, was just too big. Other donor nations were also concerned that the figure was unrealistic. The sum would be hard to raise. Moreover, a U.N. official explained, Washington was concerned that the U.S. contribution would "look like a drop in the bucket...
Other countries in the region have reservations of their own. They fret that FARC, ELN and the paramilitaries will begin looking for safe havens outside Colombia. Two weekends ago, at the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, the Presidents of the nations surrounding Colombia told President Bush that they are worried Plan Colombia will simply push drugs and violence into their yards. In response, the Bush Administration has been fine-tuning a wider Andes plan, which would expand U.S. operations into all five countries. The plan would be more than double the size of Plan Colombia and would represent...
...ballroom, of course--whatever age a person is. It provides good cardiovascular exercise and helps develop muscle tone, grace, poise and balance. It's affordable and can be learned in a relatively short time. But its popularity among the young is particularly welcomed by parents who, with some reason, fret about the safety of their children in the harsh and sometimes violent world in which so many grow up today. "What we are really teaching the students is respect, teamwork and transferable skills," says Dulaine. "Our students learn that the most important thing is to be able to work with...