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...recalled its ambassador and absented itself from the vote to as to avoid having to endorse Western occupation of an Arab land.) In their acceptance, however, at least some of the Europeans are quietly adopting an attitude of "you-broke-it, you-own-it" - an expectation that Washington's ill-starred efforts thus far to manage the postwar transition and the mounting danger of chaos may yet produce a costly lesson for the occupying powers who have demanded sole responsibility for Iraq's fate...
After her father died last June, Smolyansky, 28, succeeded him as CEO of NASDAQ-traded Lifeway Foods, whose main product is kefir, a yogurt-like drink. The small firm, based in Morton Grove, Ill., has expanded abroad under Julie Smolyansky, boosting sales 14%, to $12.2 million, in 2002. Lifeway peddles kefir across the U.S., Canada and Eastern Europe, and its powdered kefir starter is popular in Asia, Britain and the Middle East. Smolyansky's next goal is to sell soy-based drinks in Latin America...
...students to jot comments regarding the course’s merits and shortcomings. Many involved in the CUE’s revamp have suggested that evaluations make room for more lengthy remarks—a step in the right direction in becoming more comprehensive, but because of its ill-timed administration, it is still an inaccurate gauge of students’ opinion...
...elementary school. The 21-year-old sees no problem going from drumming with his rock band by night to wiping little noses and teaching kids their colors and shapes by day. That said, he knows he's unusual. When parents walk into his preschool in Oak Park, Ill., and see a young man in baggy clothes, some "freak out," he says. But when their children clamber onto his back and call him Mr. A., the moms and dads come around. ("Isn't he adorable?" whispers a mother to a visitor.) The job pays Echevarria about $15,000 a year...
...China's inability to stem tuberculosis cases like Shi's bodes ill for its SARS struggle. Like SARS, TB is a contagious respiratory disease whose spread can be contained through vigilant monitoring of its victims. Though TB has been all but eliminated in developed countries, it still afflicts 1.5 million mostly rural Chinese each year, an infection rate second only to India's. The World Bank recently concluded a decade-long project providing free TB treatment in 13 mainland provinces. It was a stunning success?incidence of the disease fell by 36%. But provincial governments ultimately treated the project...