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...missing, academics have proposed policy measures to combat their illegal circulation. These include a temporary moratorium on the trade of Near Eastern antiquities, tight controls at Iraq’s borders and airports, including the right to search and seizure, amnesty for those who return stolen objects and rapid reconstruction of Iraq’s museums and archeological facilities...
According to the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control, Hong Kong and mainland China, Singapore, Vietnam and Toronto, Canada have been affected by the rapid spread of the mysterious Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, more commonly know as SARS...
...cards. Many expect an economic-growth rate of 3% to 4% later this year. That's a solid and sustainable pace, though hardly the coiled spring that the unemployed, in particular, would like to see. More than 2 million jobs have been lost since Bush took office, and rapid job regeneration is unlikely without a bigger initial rebound--in the 5%-to-6% range--for at least a couple of quarters. To be sure, the road to even a moderate recovery won't be smooth. We're still working off the excesses of the Internet boom. Stocks generally remain highly...
...prone more to long-term growth and not stagnation." For him, that's downright exuberant. And the downbeat Roundtable survey held a hidden gem: more than half of big-company executives said their top worry was the resiliency of the consumer--who is demonstrably regaining confidence amid the rapid success and few American casualties of the war in Iraq...
Although the war to topple Saddam is winding down, the war on terror rumbles on. And while American forces won a rapid victory in Iraq, signs from the home front have been distinctly worrying. On Sept. 12, 2001, the U.S. began a war to safeguard the American way of life. Yet in spite of the military successes of the past year and a half, American values remain under attack—not only by al Qaeda, but also by our own government...