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...political aide, it might just turn out to be the deal of the year. The story begins in Colorado, where Republican Senator Wayne Allard, who is running for re-election, got the Bush Administration to jump-start a plan to remove plutonium from a federal facility there and ship it to South Carolina, starting this month. That's good politics for Allard--but bad for Representative Lindsey Graham, who is running for the Senate in South Carolina. When Graham asked Washington to pay a fine of $1 million for every day the plutonium remains unprocessed in the state after...
...Oaks, Calif. Much loved as private eye Dan Tanna in the late-'70s drama Vega$ and as a Boston detective in Spenser: For Hire, Urich also appeared in the '70s sitcom Soap, the film Turk 182!, the Emmy Award-winning mini-series Lonesome Dove and, in 1998, as the ship's captain in a revived version of Love Boat...
...question - when? - is what's troubling Wall Street; government stimulus and statistical anomalies do not a genuine recovery make. Although the U.S. economic ship does appear to be heading into a turnaround, we were clearly still turning - the GDP number couldn't hide that businesses were still clearing old stock and still not laying out for new stuff. And consumers, though they haven't let us down in years, still seem resolved to play hard to get. No sooner had stocks clinked a few morning glasses on the GDP news than the Street was hit with the University of Michigan...
...officials say the growing U.S. "footprint" here will be used to battle terrorism in the region - and to ship in humanitarian supplies - but acknowledge they could play a supporting role in any confrontation with Iraq, assuming the blessing of the host nation. But the bases also could trigger the anger of nearby Russia and China, who have long viewed central Asia as being firmly within their spheres of influence. They might also antagonize Islamic fundamentalists in the oil-rich region. U.S. troops know the risk, and patrol the 16 villages within three miles of the base, trying to make friends...
...involvement, while Israel gets U.S. aid, so does the Palestinian Authority (PA). Instead of spending their money on infrastructure, education, or any needs of a future state, however, the PA has instead chosen to invest in weapons, as was confirmed on Jan. 3 when the Karine A ship was intercepted. PA Leader Yasser Arafat has extended his “elected” presidency indefinitely, and there is no democratic process, quieting all Palestinian voices. Suicide bombings, funded by the PA, occur regularly...