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...FARC might yet expand their counterattacks by trying to go after Americans directly, hoping that enough body bags will scare the U.S. out of the region. One question you will constantly hear debated in Bogota is whether or not the FARC has surface-to-air missiles. With a multibillion-dollar bank account, it can clearly afford them. For U.S. planners--and American contract pilots--it's a big worry. It exposes the U.S. to a basic problem of policy: while U.S.-supplied planes and their American-trained crews are allowed to get involved with antidrug missions, they...
...atmospherics as the summit approached seemed to support that view: the hemisphere resembled a checkerboard of multiplying trade quarrels. Just two weeks ago, despite their intimate NAFTA partnership, Canada and the U.S. moved to the verge of a multibillion-dollar trade war over softwood lumber; it came not long after a bruising spat between Canada and Brazil that involved subsidies to airline sales and, briefly, a shutdown in the beef trade. Brazil was in a row with the U.S. over the pricing of generic aids drugs that added another thorn to a perennially prickly relationship...
...Scotland. CONVICTED. YITZHAK MORDECHAI, 55, former Israeli Defense Minister and ex-general, of sexual assault in a case hailed by activists as a breakthrough in the fight against sexual harassment; in Jerusalem. RESIGNED. CHOI SUN-JUNG, 55, as South Korea's Health Minister, to take responsibility for a multibillion-dollar deficit in the country's national medical insurance system that has brought it to the verge of collapse; in Seoul...
...available in pharmacies. The device is one of the new wave of do-it-yourself home medical tests that will check everything from your blood pressure to your HIV status. In an age of managed care and skyrocketing doctor's fees, this niche market is rapidly growing into a multibillion-dollar industry. But before you fork over the cash for an "easy to use" kit, you had better take a look at the fine print...
...their dreams of bringing Sakhalin's well-known oil riches to the outside world. But in recent months, the oilmen have turned almost giddy--buoyed in equal measure by the high price of crude and President Vladimir Putin's pledge to build a legal foundation for the West's multibillion-dollar oil bet on Russia...