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Independence-minded Tibetans may have taken heart from signs of a credibility gap in China?s military threats, but on Tuesday they received news that could set back their struggle for decades: China announced that it had found the world?s highest oil field, 15,000 feet above sea level in the disputed territory. "China would be even less likely to consider relaxing its grip on a Tibet with oil fields," says Dowell. "This is not good news for the Dalai Lama." For most nations, striking oil is counted as a blessing; for Tibetans it may be a curse...
...headaches - investors evidently figured Tuesday was as good a time as any. "This was profit-taking, pure and simple," says TIME Wall Street columnist Dan Kadlec of the three bears (the Dow shed 191, the Nasdaq 98 and the S&P 30). "Mixed earnings messages like Microsoft?s set the techs going, and the Dow just followed...
...called Letitia Baldrige, social secretary of the Kennedy White House and author of books on manners, and she politely but firmly set me straight on how children should address adults. "For children the parents of their friends should be addressed as Mr. and Mrs.," she said. "A woman in your situation should be Miss or Ms., followed by your last name. Even if your name is different from your child's, it can be memorized." Ms. Baldrige thinks that "Miss Amy" is pleasingly Southern and old-fashioned but is not strictly correct...
...still center on disenfranchised adolescents who could be direct descendants of Holden Caulfield. Now, though, says Stephen Roxburgh, president and publisher of Front Street Books, "the heat has been turned up." Front Street helped bring so-called bleak books to early teens in 1997 when it published one book set in a juvenile-detention facility (Adam Rapp's The Buffalo Tree) and another in which a 13-year-old sleeps with her mother's boss (Brock Cole's The Facts Speak for Themselves). They were followed by Melvin Burgess's even more graphic Smack, a British novel imported by Henry...
SECONDS BETTER The time it takes the fastest humans to run a mile keeps dropping. Hicham el Guerrouj set a new record last week, 45 years after Roger Bannister broke the mystical four-minute barrier. How the two speedsters compare...