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Despite Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's constant tease that the Administration will soon flash hot new information, there appears to be nothing in U.S. intelligence reports showing that Iraq has made so great a leap forward in its dangerous arsenal as to require an immediate invasion. As the National Security Council sifts through what it can publish to persuade the public, its chief, Condoleezza Rice, is advising her colleagues that "there's no smoking...
...that the relatively healthy Orange would have to be sold in a very sick market. But as Michel Bon could tell the next CEO, in Europe's current telecom environment, tough choices are about the only ones left. SPACE The Businessman in the moon it's one great leap for businessman-kind: the U.S. government has given TransOrbital permission to launch the first commercial moon landing, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, in 2003. Space is big business, with satellites generating more than $80 billion last year. But is there really money to be made on the moon? TransOrbital president...
...Dali more than redeem himself by spot-lighting his seldom exhibited knockout of a picture from 1944, Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate One Second Before Waking Up. It depicts a Venus-like Gala reclining nude above some rocks. Above her, two cinematic tigers leap out of a goldfish's mouth - and seemingly out of the canvas. It is so strikingly circus-like it seems almost to make sense...
FOOD Telling Buyers to Kiss Off There's trouble in chocolate town, and it's turning nastier than a pack of Oompa Loompas gone bad. Hershey, the largest U.S. confectioner, is for sale. Switzerland's Nestlé would like to buy it - and leap from 7% of the U.S. market to 38%. The sale would reverse the common pattern of a beloved European firm being snapped up by a rapacious American rival. Founded by Milton Hershey in 1894, the company educated orphans and built an eponymous town; the charitable trust that owns Hershey still educates 1,200 children...
...Cheryl Boyd were first looking into adopting children from South Korea, a counselor at the Children's Home Society of Minnesota warned the couple that if they chose to raise a child from Korea, "you will no longer be Americans. You will be Korean Americans." The Boyds took the leap and became the proud parents of daughters Sarah, 14, and Anna, 11. Their home is filled with Korean art and artifacts, they have traveled to South Korea several times, Sarah takes part in a local Korean dance troupe with other adopted kids, and both girls attend "culture camp"--a weeklong...