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...Qaeda continuing to grow and prosper despite the loss of its Afghan sanctuaries and so many of its personnel, and the fact that it has been relentlessly hounded by security services across Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia? The consensus among security analysts is that the key to eliminating al-Qaeda as a threat is to transform the permissive political environment in which it operates in the Muslim world. Instead, the opposite has occurred - Muslim anger at the U.S. has reached an all-time high and continues to grow, driven by outrage at U.S. actions in Iraq and Afghanistan...
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER Although the queen termite has a longer lifespan, the 17-year cicada lives longer underground--more than 95% of its life. By comparison...
...stick to get East Timor's resources," he says. "Even though we are in the castle and they are in the shanty, we still won't go to arbitration. For Australians, that's shorthand for the government doing the wrong thing." "We all want to see East Timor prosper," says an Australian diplomat involved in the country's march to freedom. "But adjusting maritime boundaries is not the way to deliver redistributive justice." Nor is it a way to make Australia's other negotiations - particularly with Indonesia - any easier...
...bear another spin of Britney Spears, you're one of the reasons that stations like Radioparadise are beginning to prosper and investors are again flocking to another alternative to the AM/FM dial: satellite radio. After years of unmet promise, online stations, along with satellite offerings like Sirius and XM Satellite Radio, are building audiences even as regular radio struggles through a decade-long slump (time spent listening is down 14% since 1994, according to the ratings firm Arbitron). Critics say industry consolidation has turned AM/FM stations into McRadio: nationally uniform, repetitive and clogged more than ever with ads and promos...
...Greed Ever Good? In his commentary "In Defense of Excess" [March 15], columnist Michael Kinsley proposed?somewhat facetiously, to be sure?that the greedy corporate executives currently on trial for their part in financial scandals are "martyrs of capitalism, dying financially so that others may prosper" and that such criminals are "a sign of the U.S. economy's robust health." Greed is unquestionably a part of the human condition, and in a healthy society there will be a moderate amount of greed. Excessive greed, however, is a sign of lack of judgment in those who have cannibalized their...