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...course, Sunday's touching election-everyone in politics and the press is required to pause and praise the Selmaesque bravery of Iraqis going to the polls-helped lift Bush's rhetoric. Imagine if Sunday had been raw carnage and Bush's new head speechwriter, Bill McGurn from The Wall Street Journal, was left trying to do a Gettysburg-style elegy, making sense from the blood spilled and rallying Americans to go on? But it wasn't just the post-election glee that animated Bush. It's who he is now. The push for freedom was compelling, riveting. And when Bush...
...speech was also classic Bush in its raw chutzpah. The man who could oppose a Homeland Security Department and then crush the Democrats in 2002 for their support of a more Union-friendly version of the same department knows his flips from his flops. The tender concern for prisoners on death row? Bush approved 152 executions in Texas and as The Atlantic pointed out so vividly, 57 of them were based on shabby "execution summary" memos written by his counsel, Alberto Gonzales. As Alan Berlow, who wrote the piece, noted, in the case of Terry Washington, "a brain-damaged...
...thought the worst was over when he buried his two-year-old son on Dec. 25. The boy had drowned two days before in a fishpond near their home in northern Vietnam's Thai Binh province, and Viet was undone by the death. At the funeral the family served raw duck blood and porridge?rural comfort food. Although they had heard that the avian influenza that swept Southeast Asia last year had returned, they thought the disease was confined to the south. The day after the funeral, Viet fell sick with flulike symptoms. He was hospitalized...
...epidemiological investigations have shown it may be equally probable that the brothers were infected by their raw-duck-blood porridge as by each other. "It's too early to tell," says Hans Troedsson, the World Health Organization's (WHO) Hanoi representative. Even if there was person-to-person transmission within the family, it hasn't spread farther, as a pandemic-causing virus likely would. (A recent New England Journal of Medicine article confirmed that such limited human-to-human transmissions occurred last September in Thailand.) But the threat of a pandemic hasn't diminished: as of last Friday, Vietnam...
Finally, a lot of pros believe we're in the early stages of a long run of commodity inflation driven by demand for raw materials in China. The Commodities Research Bureau index has jumped 36% since 1999, prompting institutions to triple the money they have tied to commodities. Stocks or funds of raw-materials companies, including energy and gold mining, are one way to go. Or you could buy an Exchange Traded Fund that directly owns gold, such as iShares Comex Gold (launched last week) or StreetTracks Gold. Or you could try a fund that invests in a commodities index...