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...citizens in Akron and Hardin County have any real reason to believe they could be hit next? The Administration's duct-tape alert had the perhaps counterproductive effect of suggesting that every household should consider itself a target--even while prime targets went undefended. "These threats are real," says Brian Jenkins, a terrorism expert at the Rand Corp., "but the increased probability of a terrorist attack does not increase the risks to any single individual." At the same time, even strengthening our defenses won't deter terrorists forever. The truth is, we probably have no way of knowing whether...
...heart of the country's pocketbooks. Using the dubious justification that the nation's food supply needs to be more "self-sufficient," Japan's inefficient agricultural sector has successfully lobbied for tariffs and subsidies to protect it from outside rivals. The result? The food budget for the average Japanese household is now 23% of income, compared with 10% in the U.S. By deregulating the food market, prices will fall?bad news for cosseted farmers but a windfall for the typical family and, eventually, a more productive economy...
...recent weeks, free government rations of such essentials as flour, rice, sugar and tea have been doubled to allow for household stockpiling. Remembering the fuel shortages of 1991, many Basrans are hoarding gasoline and cooking gas as well. It's accepted wisdom that power stations would be destroyed in the first wave of U.S. bombing, so the longest, most chaotic lines in the city are at the kerosene depots, where residents bring every kind of container--from soft-drink bottles to steel drums--to fill up with fuel for lamps and stoves...
Sporting their sunglasses and trim figures, smartly enduring and inventing indignities, these characters are a new breed of Palestinian: cool. (When a fire bomb is lobbed into his driveway, a man blithely turns on a fire extinguisher, as if terrorists were familiar household pests.) They also have an underdog appeal. That's one perk of being on the weaker side: you get to make jokes about the mighty. Short of a suicide bomb, what power have they...
That dichotomy of price and style has always been the industry's not so secret weapon. You make more money selling perfume than you do hawking pret-a-porter. Only 2.4% of the U.S. population has the annual household income of $200,000 that qualifies them as luxury shoppers. You could go broke catering to that lot. "The preponderance of luxury goods is not sold to that population," says Bills of RPA. "The majority are licensed goods sold in Topeka, Kansas, and places like...