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...ship fast." But as drop-off businesses' sales climb, eBay "can't ignore people who have volume," says Ken Sully, CEO of iSold It. "When you start to become a bigger player, of course you're going to get looked at a little differently." Sully says he hopes to strengthen marketing and promotion ties by working closely with the company. But might eBay help itself instead by launching its own drop-off service? Durzy admits that the growth of U.S. drop-off firms took eBay by surprise, and that it has considered launching its own facility. But, he says...
...viciousness and intractability of bird flu are forcing the world to begin preparing for a pandemic. At the WHO's 32-nation executive board meeting last week, health officials debated plans to strengthen disease surveillance, stockpile antiviral drugs like Tamiflu, and boost research on a human vaccine that will soon go into clinical trials. In Thailand, where 12 people have died of the disease since the beginning of 2004, the government last week launched a $117 million fund to fight avian flu over the next three years, with an 800,000-strong team of volunteers. Experts say that kind...
...similar outbreak of bloodshed over contraband traffic in 1997, he says, "We broke a taboo back then by insisting that the guy selling cigarettes on the street corner wasn't some poor soul, but a sentry for the Camorra." The current violence, he thinks, is a call to strengthen Italy's justice system. Drug dealers "should know they risk serving real time," he says. But Pisani worries that not even prison can stop the killing. "These people don't forget their dead," he says. "A war like this only ends when one side is completely annihilated...
...last January, Ford, which aims to “strengthen democratic values” and “reduce poverty and injustice” and has sponsored research at Harvard on topics such as American Islam, told universities that future grantees would have to agree not to “promote or engage in violence, terrorism, bigotry, or the destruction of any state...
...engagement, he announced after his election, is to “reach out to others and to explain to others why I make the decisions I make.” Dictating our agenda to others has characterized U.S. foreign policy for four years. More of the same will not strengthen ties with the countries we need on our side to defeat terrorism, AIDS and other global threats...