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...radical decision Bush has recently made is to move full speed on a defense system that runs afoul of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which limits testing and deployment of new defensive systems. Critics say the rapid-fire tests that could bust the treaty are designed to do so; for some Bush advisers, getting rid of ABM is an end in itself...
...while most customers are very patient with employee lapses, the double-greet usually results in an unsettling stare. This stare is more quizzical than disdainful, but it still strikes fear into the heart of even the most intrepid sales associate. Does courtesy, however redundant, warrant an apology? Would a rapid retreat into the camouflage of the throw-pillow racks be an act of cowardice, or one of judicious modesty? The implications are staggering...
...unofficial capital by the rebels. At the same time, Macedonians driven out of their villages by rebel forces in a familiar spectacle of Balkan "ethnic cleansing" vented their rage on Western embassies - and, inevitably, a McDonalds - in the capital overnight. The facts on the ground suggest a rapid movement towards carving the country in two. But, according to the current official Western narrative of the conflict, the situation is deteriorating because of the government's rejection of a key aspect of a NATO-brokered peace plan: that Albanian be recognized as a second official language in public life...
CHEMO BONES Breast-cancer patients receiving chemotherapy lose bone density up to four times as fast as expected, a study has found. Women whose ovaries stopped working, a common side effect of chemo, suffered rapid and dramatic bone loss in the hip and spine. Women who undergo chemo-induced early menopause should take calcium and vitamin D and get a bone-density test...
...evidence" of inflation. That's the other half of the equation - the green light for the Fed to cut rates into a slowdown without fear of stagflation. And Greenspan even took this Fed boilerplate up a notch, expressing what sounded like frustration that despite the Fed's six rapid-fire cuts in short-term rate targets, "most long-term rates have barely budged." Translation: Come on, bond market - I don't see inflation, so why not trade those 10-year bonds a little cheaper so people can get a deal on their mortgage? This is known as jawboning...