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...depends on how the radiation is delivered. Manufacturers of food and medical irradiation equipment say tests have shown that either of two technologies--ion-beam or gamma-ray--can render the spores inoperative by crippling their...
Chinese regulators are cracking down on rampant insider trading and illegal bank lending for stock investments. A budding mutual-fund industry, seen as one key to the retirement security of hundreds of millions of Chinese, is forcing greater transparency in the markets while adding much needed trading volume to render the markets more efficient and liquid. Yet with so much remaining to be worked out, direct investment in China will probably not make sense for most people for at least another year...
...hope that the U.S. and Russia can cooperate to find a way to amend the ABM treaty and to quickly reduce our nuclear stockpiles. The alternative, that America unilaterally withdraw from the treaty, would render meaningless Bush’s claim that the U.S. and Russia should no longer view each other as adversaries. But right now, the most pressing threat to America is international terrorism, and national missile defense must not regain its traditional place as the sole object of Bush’s foreign policy...
...Afghanistan. They also said the attacks included B-1, B-2, and B-52 bombers. The strikes are reportedly to be against Afghan air bases and suspected terror camps. Local sources have confirmed that the initial wave of attacks struck the airport in Kandahar. One immediate goal is to render useless any Taliban air defenses. In a televised address earlier this afternoon, President Bush said the Taliban "will pay a price" for not meeting U.S. demands...
...does all that matter?” Many think it is simply irrelevant. Professor John McWhorter of the University of California—Berkeley, one of this country’s leading conservative black intellectuals, maintains that it is “inappropriate to render a moral judgment on the worth of a person’s life based on moral standards which didn’t exist at that time...