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Robert Joseph is not a household name, but it is just possible that he will become one. Joseph, a senior staffer at the National Security Council (NSC), is the current answer to the question "Who put those 16 words in the President's speech?" In January Joseph faxed a paragraph to CIA official Alan Foley and then hammered out by telephone the now infamous line in the State of the Union address about Iraq trying to acquire uranium from Africa. After that the accounts differ. According to a source close to the Senate Intelligence Committee--before which Foley, along with...
...UTStarcom's Xiao Lingtong (Little Smart) handsets may look and act like cell phones, but in China, where the government allows only two firms to provide cellular service, Wu has had to convince telecom mandarins that cell phones are actually just a wireless extension of fixed-line phones--like household cordless phones on steroids. UTStarcom doesn't provide the actual telephony service, but the handsets, base stations and switching equipment it makes allow China's citizens to receive cell phone-like service at rates as much as 75% cheaper than those of traditional carriers...
...debate rages as to whether housing prices have got out of whack with reality--like Internet stocks four years ago--and are likely to collapse in the next year or two. I'm not convinced. An increase in the rates of immigration and household formation are fueling demand, and the lowest interest rates in 45 years are keeping houses affordable. Even as home prices rose nearly twice as fast as disposable income last year--and mortgage debt surged 13%--total monthly consumer-debt service remained remarkably stable...
ANTS Native ants are the fastest-growing household pests, report experts from Orkin and Terminix. Imported fire ants have spread well beyond what was predicted when the stinging insects were accidentally introduced into the southern U.S. decades...
...western hemisphere, left more than threescore sick. A far less lethal relative of the smallpox virus, monkeypox has hitherto been endemic only in Africa. So it came as little surprise when health authorities traced the outbreak to 28 prairie dogs in Milwaukee, Wis., destined to become household pets, that had come into contact with an infected giant Gambian pouched rat while in transit with a distributor. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson announced an embargo on the importation of all rodents from Africa and a ban on the sale and transfer of pet prairie dogs within...