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...wind up paying $1,000. "Save the hard-core bargaining for the really pricey pieces," Riddle says. "If you see something that costs $50 and it really speaks to your heart, then just get it." New Orleans antiques dealers all know one another and will work together to ship items bought in their stores, Moss says, so you can consolidate shipping and insurance costs. One bonus of shipping out of state: you save on the 9% Louisiana sales...
Many fabrications used to sell past wars to the American people are now notorious. In 1964, a Navy crew’s panicky suspicion that it had come under fire by a Vietnamese ship was within a few hours spun by President Lyndon B. Johnson into a malicious act of Communist aggression. For his lies, LBJ was rewarded with congressional authorization to escalate our fateful military adventure in Indochina. In 1990, the first President Bush employed bogus accounts of Iraqi soldiers tossing Kuwaiti newborns out of incubators to overcome the public’s unwillingness to wage war against...
...planning board, which typically makes recommendations on all zoning, is currently in the midst of discussing changes to the Riverside Study Committee’s recommendations before they ship them along to the City Council—which alone has the authority to change zoning...
...That's where all the newfangled gadgetry comes in. A burst of buying in the past three years has given China a high-tech capability it never had before. China has added quiet-running submarines to its already extensive underwater fleet, as well as powerful anti-ship missiles and top-gun fighter jets, mostly supplied by Russia. In so doing, China is creating pockets of military excellence to address "real-world scenarios like coercing Taiwan back to negotiations or deterring U.S. action," says Thomas Christensen, a military expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Taiwan has nervously taken notice...
...Meanwhile, the U.S. still boasts a clear military edge. China's newest weapons from Russia?a pair of Sovremenny-class destroyers with advanced Sunburn anti-ship missiles, and four Kilo-class submarines?could damage the U.S. fleet. But U.S. ships and their systems "were designed to deal with the much more capable Soviet Navy with scores of excellent subs," says Walter Slocombe, Under Secretary of Defense in the Clinton years...