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...Algeria, says Marlowe, "you're not worried about artillery shells or snipers but about the guy who might shoot you point blank or slash your throat while you're sleeping." Three times--once at night--Marlowe ventured out on tense patrols with the "ninjas," the country's masked paramilitary police. It is the only way to see Algiers' most violent areas. On the fourth day, she worked in her hotel while photographer Abbas accompanied the ninjas. His group was ambushed by remote-control bombs, severely damaging an armored vehicle but, fortunately, injuring...
...director of the HCS's network group, it'sinteresting to me how Windows 95 will be workinginto the worldwide network-slash-internetcommunity," Osterberg said. "Their motto--'Wheredo you want to go today?'--implies that it's goingto be network-friendly...
...agents to find them the best fares on the most convenient flights and to book hotel rooms and rental cars-all without charge. But these complimentary services are likely to vanish now that the major airlines have targeted their obsessive cost cutting at travel agents and demanded that they slash the commissions they charge the carriers for distributing tickets. Agencies across the country are determined not to get squeezed, and so passengers will...
...Wall Street analysts are now predicting that the Dow could break 4500 before year's end. The rally began yesterday after Greenspan told Congress that the central bank might hold interest rates steady - or cut them - as the economy cools down, and continued today when he urged lawmakers to slash the budget deficit for the long-term health of the economy. TIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan says Greenspan, once reviled in some quarters of Capitol Hill for his series of rate hikes, is now earning plaudits from investors for having contained inflation without quashing the economy's robust 4 percent...
...years, to $5.15. The proposal is certain to ignite a major fight with congressional Republicans and is unlikely to survive. A spat is also sure to erupt when the President formally unveils his $1.6 trillion budget this week. While promising to eliminate or consolidate hundreds of programs and slash $144 billion in spending over the next five years, the President's plans do not cut deeply enough to balance the budget by 2002, which Republicans vow they will do--though how remains to be determined...