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...visits alone rarely produce dramatic moments of discovery. In the past, arms were tracked down mostly by piecing together complex mosaics from satellite pictures, surveillance cameras, export-import data, painstaking air and soil tests, and intelligence from defectors. Although Resolution 1441 gives inspectors stronger powers than they have ever had, it's still a struggle to turn up evidence that Iraq wants to hide. Chemical bombs may be buried in wells or stored in residential basements. The Iraqis could be shuffling tiny quantities of biotoxins around as if playing three-card monte. Labs can be kept in movable, undetectable vans...
...noted, Bush's advisers talk of "transplanting democracy to a region where it has never taken root," jump-starting the Middle East peace process and sparking "an outbreak of secular prosperity." Though these things could make the soil of the Arab world less hospitable to the next generation of Osama bin Ladens, such a climate will not come about by further occupation of Arab lands by U.S. and other foreign forces. Instead of taking military steps, the U.S. should be playing an active, leading role as an honest and unbiased broker in the stalled Middle East peace process. That...
From 1943 to 1945 Rawls served as a soldier in the Pacific. Upon his return to U.S. soil, he went back to Princeton to pursue graduate work. He received his doctorate...
...shrimp--$3 billion worth in 2001 alone. Through last June, Thailand accounted for 28% of the shrimp imported into the U.S. But this commerce is costly. Long strips of coastline south of Bangkok now look like powdery gray moonscapes. Shrimp farms can raise the salinity of the surrounding soil and water, poisoning the land for agriculture. Some flush their effluent into the sea, killing mangrove trees. Shrimp farming is also practiced in Brazil, India and Ecuador, and in the U.S. in Florida, South Carolina and Texas...
...same time, other firms, far fewer in number, have succeeded grandly on foreign soil. Now, with a little distance, it's possible to evaluate some of what separated the winners from the losers and formulate a few 21st century lessons...