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...worthy aims of the new round of World Trade Organization negotiations, the six-day talks to launch them last week in Doha were grueling and acrimonious. The meeting in the tiny Gulf state of Qatar was characterized by sly diplomatic intrigue, brutal arm twisting, pompous political grandstanding and foul humor. And although bleary-eyed ministers and officials claimed the new trade agenda more or less pleased everyone, they also showed that getting 142 nations to agree on anything is like building a house of cards on the back of a galloping camel...
...Despite bloodcurdling threats, Northern Alliance commanders had been somewhat reluctant to launch the promised frontal assault - Thursday's deadline was the third "final" ultimatum for the Taliban to surrender. But despite the fact that the Alliance has swept into Kabul and liberated half of the country, there hasn't, in fact, been a single pitched battle in this war. The Taliban's sequential withdrawals have for the most part spared the Alliance from having to fight street-to-street for control over any city. And the fundamentalist movement's demise has come about in large part because many...
...turn. My daughter was not even a toddler then, but old enough to enjoy that lump of sugar. What a blessing it was! Now we are confronted with a danger greater than polio, frightening because we don't even know what form it may come in. The government should launch an all-out campaign to develop vaccines for the diseases terrorists might inflict on us and give everyone a chance to receive the vaccine. The cost would be minuscule compared with the misery and money involved in treating and containing the diseases if they strike. So far, most...
...know in my heart that this technology is coming, and if I don't do it someone else will," says Moller, a mechanical and aeronautical engineer who has devoted nearly 40 years and $200 million to developing his flying car. Someday, he believes, people will launch Skycars from their rooftops and fly to work...
...fierce fighting. The Taliban negotiated away their last stronghold Friday, Mullah Omar reportedly handing the city over to two Pashtun warlords and heading for the hills. Thousands of Taliban fighters, many of them foreign volunteers, remained under siege at Kunduz in the north, with the Northern Alliance threatening to launch a bloody assault by nightfall Friday if they fail to surrender. The era of Taliban power is plainly over, but the next chapter of Afghan conflict may have already begun as rival anti-Taliban factions stake competing claims for power - and the Taliban itself tries to regroup for a protracted...