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WASHINGTON: This time, Ken Starr squeezed his potential witness a little too hard. A federal judge Wednesday dismissed all tax evasion charges against Webster Hubbell on Wednesday, allowing the central Whitewater figure to slip out from under Starr's thumb and dealing a major blow not only to the independent counsel's case against the President but also to his reputation...
That's why you should never rely on sunscreen as your only protection. Stay out of the midday sun (from 10 to 3), and you will avoid 60% of the UV-B that hits the earth. Slip on a long-sleeve shirt to protect those vulnerable areas on the shoulders and back. When you use sunscreen, slop it on thick and often. And slap on a wide-brimmed hat, and you can keep 70% of the sun's rays off your face and neck. After decades of their "Slip, Slop, Slap" campaign, Australians are starting to see a decrease...
China has the only currency in East Asia that has not fallen in value in the past year. And no one doubts that if the renminbi did slip, that would launch the rest of the region into a new round of devastating devaluations. And Hong Kong, which has pegged its currency to the U.S. dollar for 15 years, would have little choice but to abandon that link, with possibly disastrous results for its stock and property markets. We got a taste of what that might mean for the U.S. and Europe at the beginning of last week, when global stock...
...terrain of Seamus Deane's new novel can be stunningly lovely, as green and verdant as one would expect the Emerald Isle to be. His young narrator, never named, frolics though ferns and splashes in streams in near-idyllic countryside whenever he gets the chance to slip off with his friends. Yet all is not serene in this seeming pastoral; each crossing of the clear and shallow brook is a violation of the law. The narrator lives on the border of the Irish Free State, and the river hems him into his native Northern Ireland...
...High praise indeed, especially from a sourpuss like the Fed chairman. So why on earth did the Dow slip 78 points in Wednesday's session -- after gaining almost 250 points over the past four -- as if CNBC had rerun the "irrational exuberance" speech instead? "We're in between earnings seasons right now, and no one expects the Fed to raise interest rates anyway," says Fortune writer Nelson Schwartz. "All that is translating to a lethargy in the markets -- volume has been weak, even when the Dow goes up. People need a new reason to get excited about stocks; Greenspan just...