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...across Europe, beef consumption has plunged 27% in the last three months; in Germany it has been cut in half. This is an epidemic propelled by fear, and governments aren't immune. Ridiculed for their attempts to downplay the threat last year, German authorities last week pledged to buy, slaughter and bury 400,000 cows in an effort to rid the country of the disease. Full Story...
...Challenge No. 1: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Washington needs the help of friendly Arab governments, like those in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt. But America's allies are upset by U.S. acquiescence in what they see as Israel's slaughter of Palestinians in the 16-month-old Aqsa intifadeh. The U.S. will try to calm the conflict, but overt cooperation with Arab states will not be easy as long as Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza continues...
...disturbing is that in reinventing Rwandan society, the RPF sometimes relies on the same authoritarian structures that made the genocide possible in the first place. Forget the stereotypes of "tribal chaos" and "failed states" that are used to describe the massacres. Mobilizing hundreds of thousands of ordinary people to slaughter their neighbors every day for three months required a dense, centralized network of administration...
Which is precisely the scenario that critics of airline consolidation are eager to avoid. Says Representative Louise Slaughter, a New York Democrat: "It would be a travesty for the new Administration to let this go forward." Maybe, but few expect the Bush Administration to find the thrust reverser for this one. The President-elect hails from American's home state (CEO Carty was a big Bush contributor), and John Ashcroft, Bush's nominee for Attorney General, comes from TWA's. Says Holly Hegeman, an aviation analyst and publisher of the website planebusiness.com "I really don't think we would have...
...their stories. Then the Shiite rebellion began, egged on by President Bush's call on them to rise and overthrow Saddam. I'd gone up the Euphrates, and crossed a river into Shiite territory. The Iraqi Republican Guard was killing thousands and thousands of Shiites. It was incredible, just slaughter. I came out and tried to do a story about it, and no one would listen. The war was over but now there were more casualties happening than in the war itself, and nobody cared...