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...really have a reaction. It's just something else to cause a stir in the media. You know, Buddy Rice won with the heaviest car last year at Indy. So I'm not sure it really matters that much...
...enabled him to get home earlier than his wife. Though he's no gourmet chef, Inniss can, as he puts it, "feed the troops," who often include relatives and other children he has opened his home to. Among his standbys are spaghetti, meat loaf, roast chicken and stir-fry. "I like to hide the veggies," he confesses. He doesn't encourage the kids to help. "I basically like to keep them out of my way. I just want to get through...
...reports of Cuban cancer patients cured by shark cartilage created a stir in 1993. But a new study of breast- and colorectal-cancer patients in the journal Cancer found that the cartilage didn't help any of them. In fact, it was so toxic, some patients dropped out of the study after a month. --By Sora Song
...China's surging trade surplus. China has also announced tariffs on its own exports of textiles to pre-empt possible moves by Europe and the U.S. to protect home markets. In this environment, the purchase by a state-owned Chinese oil producer of a U.S. rival no doubt would stir controversy. But in the global oil patch, China's surging appetite for reserves is now a fact of life. "Welcome to the oil business of the 21st century," says a senior executive at a major U.S. oil producer. "This is the new world...
...report spread throughout the Muslim world. Protests erupted in Pakistan and Afghanistan, though how much was actually attributable to outrage over the Newsweek story is a matter of dispute. Opponents of the U.S.-supported government of Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan may have seized on the report to stir up trouble. On May 12, U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard Myers said the U.S. military believed that the riots were not triggered by the Newsweek report. Six days later, he elaborated, stating that in the view of Lieut. General Karl Eikenberry, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan...