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...Scud missiles (which they were not able to do in 1991) before he can fire warheads loaded with conventional explosives or perhaps chemical agents at Israel or his Arab neighbors. Even if all these pre-emptive measures are taken, Saddam could still try a crude pre-emptive strike of his own, using chem or bio agents against U.S. forces as they gather. But chemical weapons are hard to control on the battlefield; shifting winds could blow them back on Iraqi soldiers. U.S. forces will go into battle in full protective gear. And the Administration says it plans to warn Iraqi...
...going on strike. That was my first thought when I heard that the guys at Google had developed a computerized news editor that could do for free what I do for a living--track news and pull the most important stories together into a vibrant, continuously updated Web page. My website is TIME.com Theirs is Google News. But I get paid for what I do, while Google's news editor gets no compensation--no salary, no medical, no free T shirts from failing dotcoms. If West Coast dockworkers can trigger a labor dispute because automation threatens to thin their ranks...
...wealth to the south, Fiat factories and nearby parts providers offer the only real job opportunities in a region where unemployment is already above 20%. Giuseppe Lecce, who joined the car company four years after the Cassino plant opened in 1972, was part of a four-hour nationwide strike Friday of all Fiat plants. As a steady drizzle fell, Lecce, 52, gave a quick lesson in local economic history in front of the gate to the plant that produces the company's most popular new model - the Stilo, a hatchback starting at about €14,000 - and is slated...
...Wednesday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is supposed to answer hundreds of thousands of opponents who marched through Caracas last week and gave him an ultimatum: either resign, call an early referendum on your presidency, or face a massive general business and labor strike this month. But Chavez, whose radical left-wing demagoguery has violently polarized the oil-rich nation, can probably afford to ignore the call - and not just because most of Venezuela's poor, who make up 80% of the population, are on his side. Chavez has another, albeit unlikely ally for the moment: George W. Bush...
...brother may have been acting on orders from al-Qaeda. Abdullah Kandari described how his brother, just before he headed to Falaika Island to launch his attack, had become angry watching the 9pm news on Kuwait TV, which had broadcast footage of Palestinians killed by an Israeli missile strike in the Gaza refugee camp of Khan Yunis. According to Abdullah, Anas had jumped to his feet and cried, "God is generous, O Americans! We shall come and slaughter you like you have been slaughtering us!" Abdullah Kandari said that his brother blamed the U.S. more than Israel, and questioned...