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...precious approval ratings plummeting due to inaction, Bush says he's ready to shed some American blood to pay "the price of liberty...
...order to hold on to precious capital, companies are increasingly delaying the payment of bills. Says C. Richard Lehmann, head of the Bond Investors Association: "Companies are writing checks but waiting for creditors to call and ask for payments before mailing them." But that doesn't mean that corporations are any more understanding of their own customers. They are stepping up their pressure on businesses that owe them money...
...they're not alone--not anymore, at least. Nosering wearers at Harvard say they're happy to have bits of precious metal stuck in their nostrils, and they say the trend is slowly catching...
Nestor, Taylor and Holdt all report infections from their piercings. They caution that fellow wearers use clean jewelry made of genuine precious metals and warn them not to replace the piercing stud too early...
Social observers believe a daughter's lot will improve as women become more valuable to China's growing economy and as the one-child policy eventually makes every scion -- male and female -- precious to parents. Chen's own daughter Jiang Xu, 19, reflects changing attitudes when she expresses her preference for a daughter: "To have a boy means happiness for a moment. To have a girl means a lifetime of good fortune...