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...Decision time TURKEY The country's unpredictable parliament is expected to vote as early as this week on a U.S. request to send up to 11,000 troops to Iraq. Given that Turkey rejected an American request to admit U.S. troops to Turkish soil before the war, officials in Ankara are not forecasting the outcome. But there are reasons to believe that the result will be different this time. Turkey's armed forces and the pro-Islamic government both realize that failing Washington again could endanger Turkey's economy, says Dogu Ergil, a political scientist at Ankara University. They also...
Throughout his life, Said was forced to defend his background—particularly in the face of criticism for his strong support for Palestinian nationalism despite his birth on what is now considered Israeli soil...
After the May 12 attacks, the House of Saud understood that it was under direct assault by an organization committed to its overthrow. Though bin Laden, a Saudi, long ago condemned the royal family for allowing U.S. troops on Saudi soil starting in 1990, his group had refrained from violence within the kingdom. Its reasons were clear to U.S. intelligence. Says a former Bush Administration official: "There were al-Qaeda agents in the kingdom that urged al-Qaeda not to strike in Saudi Arabia because they [the Saudis] might cut off the spigot" of funds flowing to the group...
...they succeed overseas, however, trouble is brewing at home. As part of an agreement with the World Trade Organization (WTO), India will apply international patent standards to its domestic pharmaceuticals market in 2005, ending three decades of protectionism and making it easier for multinationals to compete on Indian soil without being relentlessly copied. Currently, India's top 10 pharmaceutical companies spend only 3.3% of their revenues on research into new products?compared with the 10-15% their Western peers spend. Once the new patent laws are enforced, local drugmakers that don't want to be buried by multinationals will have...
...home is no longer a fixed location. As a Taiwanese-born citizen raised in Costa Rica and the U.S., I am quite aware that more and more Asians are becoming citizens of the world. Although Pico Iyer wrote that "home nowadays has nothing to do with a piece of soil and everything to do with something I carry around inside me," I have a different reaction. Having recently made my own Asian journey home and with three identities deeply inculcated in me, I find it hard to adapt to wherever I live?except in my own house, where...