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...Bush administration's immediate response will be to persist in crafting a strong UN Security Council resolution demanding Iraqi compliance with various previous resolutions, and threatening military action as the price for defiance. But Saddam's letter has given Russia, France, the Saudis, Egypt and other European and Arab allies looking to avoid a war something to work with...
...unsettle economic and security relationships with undemocratic regimes. Until all the world's remaining despotic regimes--be they profoundly cruel or in some respects more benevolent--are replaced by democratically committed regimes, terrorism will always find new adherents, and the threat to America's security and ideals will persist. Change has come to Afghanistan. It must be protected there. But change must also come to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, Iran, the Palestinian Authority and wherever nations are ordered to exalt the few at the expense of the many...
...cited in 80 deaths in the U.S.?is reportedly gaining popularity as a diet drug in the region. "Humans have short memories," sighs Adachi, the Japanese doctor who sounded the alarm over pills containing N-nitroso fenfluramine. "So long as people insist on being thin, dangerous diet drugs will persist." In other words: as long as Asians are dying to be thin, there's a good chance some of them will do so trying to reach their goal...
Since 1926, stocks have returned about 10% a year, before allowing for inflation, and there is no reason to believe that rate will not persist. But returns can fluctuate wildly for decades at a time, and people within 10 years of retirement should prepare for subpar returns the rest of their working lives. Why? For one thing, to allow for the working off of the excesses that accompanied the two decades of exceptional market growth we have just experienced. It does not necessarily follow that two decades of outsize gains will give way to an extended period of market torment...
...where are they? Nobody knows, moreover, what triggered the emergence of the earliest hominids in the first place. Virtually everyone now agrees that walking upright was the key physical adaptation that set the hominid line in motion. But that adaptation had to have some evolutionary advantage for it to persist. What, exactly, was so great about walking on two legs...