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Sources: Circulation; New England Journal of Medicine; Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. and Glaxo Wellcome; National Safe Kids Campaign
...attack. The solid, three-story, white stone embassy, originally housing the Israeli mission and taken over by the U.S. in 1980, is surrounded by a 100-ft. stone and steel perimeter fence, approached through two gates. A team of local guards from a private firm called Ultimate Security Ltd. patrolled the entry from the first perimeter gate to the Marine post in the embassy door, as well as the parking areas inside and outside the compound. They were backed up by a surveillance camera that swept the area and was monitored on TV screens inside by Marines...
...Gates and buy the college of your choice. You could steer them toward one of the five U.S. service academies, where an appointment comes almost entirely at taxpayers' expense, or toward Berea or the Webb Institute, where tuition is free. Or you could get a job with Wilson Greatbatch Ltd. in Clarence, N.Y., which has an education fund that pays the full freight for company employees and their children. But chances are, those aren't options, in which case all this advice just might be worth a degree in something...
...consolidation. Along with its equity interest in Kia, Ford Motor Co. owns Jaguar PLC and a one-third stake in Mazda and is considering an alliance with Samsung Motors Inc. GM, still the world's largest automaker, owns Germany's Adam Opel AG, the U.K.'s Vauxhall Motor Cars Ltd., Holden's in Australia, 50% of Saab Automobile AB in Sweden and about a third of Isuzu. On top of that, GM operates a joint venture in Canada with Suzuki Motor Corp. and an assembly plant called NUMMI in California with Toyota...
...dream for international criminals. Even old-style tax cheats would be entranced by an anonymity that would allow them to earn income without forking over a chunk to Uncle Sam. And that means rejiggering the IRS--and quickly. "Digital cash has no boundaries," explains Richard Rahn, president of Novecon Ltd., a technology consulting firm. "The cybermoney revolution makes some forms of tax evasion very easy." And these innovations even call into question the role of the Federal Reserve as arbiter of the nation's money supply. "The more such innovations succeed, the less the public has to rely on central...