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...potential for trouble goes both ways. Indeed, the scale of U.S.-China trade dependence is worrying even some stalwart free traders. "In the globalized world of today, there is no risk if America, Europe and Japan stop producing T shirts or television sets," says Jean-Pierre Lehmann, professor of international political economy at IMD, the international business school in Lausanne, Switzerland. "My concern is that the U.S. in particular is far too overdependent on China, not just for goods but also for finance. So there is nothing wrong with the U.S. sourcing its consumables outside...
...sister of a rising senior in Pforzheizmer House has been missing for nearly three weeks, prompting a large-scale search in the Southern California community where she was last seen...
...your destination." The Kemalists' blogs remind skeptics of the Islamic notion of takiye, according to which it is permissible for devout Muslims to dissimulate in order to achieve their goal. The fact that the party has not yet pursued an Islamist agenda on a national scale is, secularists argue, not proof that it never will. To bolster their argument, the secularists' newspapers zealously publish stories about municipal officials who have imposed Islam on public life by, for example, segregating the sexes at public pools...
...same time, small-scale mutinies within evangelical circles provided yet more evidence that some traditional religious allegiances no longer held. The conservative evangelical Alabama state chairman of the Christian Coalition doesn't sound like a natural ally for Democrats, but Randy Brinson is as politically ecumenical as he is religiously devout. A professional gastroenterologist and amateur music buff, he was inspired during the most recent presidential campaign to mirror the Rock the Vote campaign by founding Redeem the Vote, which used Christian radio and music festivals to reach out to and register young people of faith...
...evening. Then she returned to her London home and went to bed-to be woken a few hours later by the news that there had been an attempted car-bomb attack in the capital. Less than 12 hours after she'd taken office, Britain was facing a full-scale terror crisis, and she was the point person...