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...mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan, Osama bin Laden may have lost the ability to send a chill down the world's spine. Governments don't shut down airports or send security forces into red alert. Even when he makes the direst threats, we no longer feel compelled to slow down, much less stop, the course of our daily lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Bin Laden Be Caught? | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

...risks in mature economies aren't so lethal. Instead there is potential treachery of the bottom line. Bank analysts are worried that HSBC has become overly dependent on slow-moving, mature markets, such as in Europe and the U.S.--which could slow growth. Goldman Sachs estimates HSBC's profit growth will sink to a more-than-respectable 9.8% a year from 2005 to 2007, after expanding an average of 19% a year from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: banking: The Bank That Ate the World | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

Democrats and many economists feel that that's a guarantee of more deficits. But Bush insists that failure to extend tax cuts--which he calls a tax increase--won't cure the deficit because it will slow down a fragile economy. "In my judgment," Bush told a crowd of business people at a moving-van lot in northern Virginia last week, "the best way to solve the deficit is to grow the economy--not run up your taxes." But the reality is that with the help of his tax cuts, Bush has already piled on more than a trillion dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hey, Big Spender ... | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

...Fret all you want about rising energy costs and a housing slowdown. Yes, both are drags on the economy, which appears to be slowing. But oil and gas reserves are building; their prices will stablize soon. Housing activity will continue to slow-but from a pace that everyone knew was unsustainable. The national median home price rose a blistering 13% last year. The next three years, predicts Doug Duncan, chief economist at the Mortgage Banker?s Association, price gains will equal their long-run average of 5% to 6% each year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Give Yourself a Raise | 1/20/2006 | See Source »

Casey said the Bush administration proposal “would slow down research.” But, he added, “it would not necessarily further national security...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Government Revises Research Restrictions | 1/20/2006 | See Source »

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