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...parts of 15 different agencies, including the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, agencies whose willingness to share closely guarded secrets is notoriously poor and whose suspicion of one another is strong. CIA Director Porter Goss and FBI Director Robert Mueller, for instance, still haven't worked out a lingering turf war over some aspects of human intelligence gathering, and the White House recently ordered that they get it done, sources tell TIME...
...Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. How come? For one thing, Germany and the other 11 euro-zone nations now have a much bigger internal market to sell to without exchange-rate risks, and some of the zone's important trading partners, including Britain and Switzerland, haven't suffered U.S.-style currency falls...
...companies have also played a key role: to stay competitive, most European firms haven't raised prices in the U.S., Latin America and Asia. That's put ever greater pressure on them to reduce production costs, come up with innovative products and push into new markets - with outstanding results...
...half a century, millions of hopeful mainland Chinese escaped strife, famine and persecution at home by fleeing across the border to Hong Kong, a city of comparative peace, stability and opportunity. But today Hong Kong's haven looks less attractive, as its unemployment hovers around 7% while China's economy steams ahead at nearly 10% per year. The result: according to statistics released last week, only 38,100 mainlanders moved to Hong Kong in 2004, the fewest since the present immigration quotas were set in 1996. This may be bad news for the territory. With a fertility rate...
...graduate Derrick N. Ashong ’96. His experiences in Ghana showed him the cross-cultural potential of music, “Music is a language, and as you become more and more fluent, you can connect with people in a really wonderful way...even [with] people you haven't even met on a personal level yet.” After a particularly good jam session, he describes the rapport and old-friend like bond that develops between musicians, “just cause you've hit the groove right...