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...internal health: to dry up the poverty that spawns drug growers, boat people and terrorists; to encourage clean and responsive governments capable of addressing grievances. What kind of U.S. foreign policy can foster such conditions? The tools Washington has inherited from the cold war, designed to defend territory and prop up clients, are certainly unsuited to the task...
...Francisco Bureau Chief David Jackson reports: "California has an enormous number of illegal aliens, and 187 was an attempt to slow their influx. But as this judge's ruling illustrates, there are a lot of complex legal questions involved, and this is a long way from being resolved. Prop 187 has never really been implemented. It was virtually frozen in its tracks the day after the elections by lawsuits challenging its legality. This ruling will have little immediate impact not only because of the court challenges, but also because many of the teachers and medical professionals have refused to withhold...
Knowles recalled visiting the building right after the crack was found, early in the renovations. Twenty steel beams had to be used to prop the building up, he said...
...shareholders with a pile of stock valued at about $8.5 billion and, according to the deal's rough outline, make Turner a vice chairman of the combined company with authority over his previous holdings and may be more. Time War ner would get Turner's globe-straddling cable prop erties--CNN and the Cartoon Network, plus three other channels-along with two movie companies, New Line Cinema and Castle Rock, and sports properties that include the potent Atlanta Braves...
...others. The taiga, the word used to describe the region's enormous forests, in particular has captured the attention of both foreigners and Russians. Japan, Korea and the U.S. covet the rich forests of southern Siberia. The Russian government sees its timber as a quick source of cash to prop up an economy that continues to flounder. Fearful of an economic collapse that might once again bring to power a hostile, nuclear-armed totalitarian regime, the U.S. is trying to promote the responsible exploitation of the region's resources, in part through a series of agreements on trade and technology...