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...back in a soldier's uniform, his blood seeping into a mud puddle. Tatum is John Tyree, a special-forces soldier madly in love with chaste, do-gooder college student Savannah (Amanda Seyfried), whom he met during a two-week leave in the spring of 2001. We go to flashbacks, and as John enfolds Savannah in his big, beautiful arms, with Sept. 11 hovering like a hurricane over the South Carolina beaches, you take bets on whether that mud puddle was in Afghanistan or Iraq, What's it going to be? Paralysis? Or straight-up dead? Either way, you anticipate...
...Then there's the free shipping that's often offered, which experts believe cannot be offered forever. "If energy costs go up and transportation costs continue to rise, that's got to get paid for," says Bill Martin, co-founder of ShopperTrak, a research firm that tracks shoppers...
...companies can't sell stock or bonds as easily as investors would like to buy them, the cost of capital will go up," says James Ellman, president of the money-management firm Seacliff Capital. "That hurts companies' ability to expand, buy equipment and create jobs. GDP grows slower." (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...ancient monarch who manages to free herself after a lifetime of struggle. But Lost and its mysteries appeal even more strongly to Iranians. "In Iran, people are drawn to stories that are unpredictable," observes Masoud. Sometimes to excess: it is not unheard of for Iranian fans to go on Lost benders that last weeks...
...rise is sending shock waves through the international order, we should remember that this has happened before. From the 1890s to the 1910s, a continent-sized country was ascending. It claimed to hate imperialism yet wasn't above extending its control over territory. It had a tendency to go it alone, and made other powers nervous. That country was the U.S. (See pictures of China...