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...office on Jan. 20, 2001. The country witnessed a struggle for the presidency that lasted over a month past Election Day and President Bush faced the challenge of uniting a divided country. He also had to grapple with an inherited recession immediately upon assuming office. The Dow Jones reached its high in January 2000, one year before President Bush took the oath of office. However, these challenges paled in comparison to the extraordinary tragedy that befell the nation eight months later.The president’s most important accomplishment has been keeping America safe since 2001. Following the terrorist attacks...
...There's also the inspiration provided by this century's most electrifying election yet: the 2008 U.S. presidential race. Across Asia, citizens are beginning to ask who will serve as their nations' Obamas, change agents who vow to reach across party lines and heal divided societies. One Asian, it turns out, has already assumed the role. Just before the American election, on a string of islands and coral atolls in the Indian Ocean, another far less heralded poll took place. For 30 years, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom had ruled the Maldives, making him Asia's longest-serving leader...
...usual way to test the economic pulse in a downturn is to go for a stroll down Main Street. Perhaps we should take to the high seas instead. There may be no better measure of the reach, depth and potential duration of the global economic slowdown than the fast-sinking fortunes of the shipping industry. From the historic docks of Rotterdam to China's booming trading hub of Ningbo, troubling symptoms abound. The Baltic Dry Index, which tracks the cost of shipping raw materials, has plummeted from an all-time high of 11,793 last May to below...
...even those modest goals will be hard to reach. Despite an 18-month blockade of Gaza, Hamas has shown itself to be adept at smuggling in rockets, many of them believed to be from Iran. And the very ferocity of Israel's campaign in Gaza will complicate chances of a new cease-fire. Although reports on Dec. 30 suggested that the Israelis were mulling some form of truce, it is doubtful that either combatant will agree until it inflicts more damage on the other, even though, according to one senior Hamas official reached by TIME on the telephone from Gaza...
...debate over sex education has long been a heated one. A new study released Dec. 29 found that a popular method of promoting abstinence - pledging to remain a virgin - doesn't appear to be the answer. To reach this conclusion, Janet Rosenbaum, a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health, analyzed information gathered from nearly 1,000 teenagers, of which approximately 30% took a virginity pledge. Parsing the data, Rosenbaum found that the teenagers who took chastity vows were just as likely to have premarital sex as their peers-and significantly less likely to use protection. TIME...