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...missionary becomes more assertive. In August 2001, Afghanistan's Taliban arrested Heather Mercer, 24, and Dayna Curry, 29, who had traveled from a Texas church to work for a group called Shelter Germany in Kabul. During their three-month incarceration, subsequent rescue and visit with President Bush in the Rose Garden, the press referred to them as "Christian aid workers," implying that they were engaged solely in humanitarian ministry and that their jailers' claim that they were proselytizing was false...
...Internet stocks four years ago--and are likely to collapse in the next year or two. I'm not convinced. An increase in the rates of immigration and household formation are fueling demand, and the lowest interest rates in 45 years are keeping houses affordable. Even as home prices rose nearly twice as fast as disposable income last year--and mortgage debt surged 13%--total monthly consumer-debt service remained remarkably stable...
...reported that in the states with caps on pain-and-suffering awards, malpractice premiums rose faster than in those without. Why aren't doctors and lawyers combining their considerable political clout to work for regulation of premium costs instead of undermining one another? Insurance companies are running the country's health-care system into the ground, forcing doctors and patients to bear the increasing burden of the insurance firms' poor money-management practices. The insurers are the ones that need regulation. DANA O'LEARY Springfield...
...more to sports events." Whatever the logic of the sponsors, jazz remains a tiny but relatively healthy segment of a music industry in general turmoil. Wulf Mueller, vice president for international marketing at Universal Music International, which owns the prestigious Verve label, says his group's jazz sales rose 29% over the past two years, while Universal's overall record sales dropped off 20%. "Jazz doesn't get pirated much, its audience is a little older and a little wealthier, and they like to own things," he says. "The demand for quality music is strong." In search of more than...
...soon transcended the merely trendy. Today, at 72, she is one of the U.K.'s most celebrated artists, respected for a life spent pursuing her own singular vision. The first-ever overview of her 40-year career at Tate Britain (which runs until Sept. 28) shows how she rose above the Op Art fad. Monochrome mutates into color, and simple dots and triangles morph into ripples and barley-sugar twists, always following an internal logic. You can see her refining a theme, then moving on in a new direction, returning to an earlier obsession or throwing several ideas together...