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...combination of the office’s usual summer travails and new national-security legislation looming on the horizon leaves the HIO with a formidable amount of work...
...bureaucratic snafu, says the Bush Administration, and one which doesn't detract at all from the case for war; in fact it was hardly a significant part of that case in the first place. Indeed. But three months after taking control of Iraq, the deeper question looming on the horizon is less how one item of bad intelligence slipped into a keynote speech than how so much of the intelligence the Administration had believed was solid appears to have been rather liquid, even gaseous...
...island's south shore, where rooms range from $150 to $370 a night. The 16-unit Hacienda Tamarindo (787-741-8525) offers an elevated view of the ocean and homey rooms decorated with old circus posters and other curiosities. Its next-door neighbor, the Inn on the Blue Horizon (787-741-3318), has one-room cottages with country-style wooden furniture, just steps from the sea. And the celebrated, open-air architecture of the Hix Island House hixislandhouse.com) farther inland, lets you feel as if you're camping but with all the privacy and amenities of a luxury rental, including...
Joshua Ramo was a hobbyist pilot who found himself mysteriously drawn to aerobatics, which he compares to aerial figure skating, with the following caveat: "When was the last time Kristy Yamaguchi burst into flames in the middle of a Salchow?" In No Visible Horizon (Simon & Schuster; 273 pages), Ramo, a former TIME editor, tells the story of his love affair with a sport that in a bad year, by his estimate, can kill 1 in 30 of its practitioners. Ramo buys a plane and learns to spin, loop, roll and do all three simultaneously at hundreds of miles per hour...
There's a perfect storm brewing on Europe's horizon - a combination of tentative markets, sluggish growth prospects, and a demographic time bomb that will see the ratio of workers to retirees plummet dramatically over the next 40 years. The result; as state budgets shrink, Europe's consumers will have to rely more on themselves for things they once took for granted - like retirement benefits and comprehensive health care. For some, that will mean entering the investment culture for the first time - just when the outlook is bleak. For others, it will mean holding their noses and forging ahead despite...