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...horrendous civil war, with wider implications outside Iraq. And one thing is sure: appointing the same exiled career politicians to power isn't going to solve anything. Abhishek Bhattacharyya Bangalore, India A Deadly Policy The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian man the London police mistakenly suspected to be a terrorist and shot, raises important questions [Aug. 29]. Why did British police institute a shoot-to-kill policy for suspected suicide bombers when disabling them would be enough? Why pump eight bullets into a suspect when one or two would have been enough? What went on inside...
...maintenance malfunction (and is the second fatal flight this year by low-cost provider West Caribbean Airlines). While inspections have not yielded clear results for the Indonesian flight, the aging Boeing was nearly 25 years old—and scheduled to keep flying for eleven more years. I suspect that these accidents were not altogether unavoidable given more careful maintenance or a less thrifty schedule of plane replacement...
...hate to condemn a first-of-its-kind technology because of herky-jerky behavior. Every product goes through a streamlining, an evolution. Nowadays, the product itself can be updated as improvements are made, and I suspect Nikon is hard at work trying to right some of the wrongs of its new release. The camera is surprisingly affordable for carrying this new capability; after all, in addition to being a wireless pioneer, it?s a solidly performing 5.1-megapixel camera with 3.5x optical zoom and a lot of great automatic and manual controls. (There?s also an 8-megapixel version...
...globalization is a blessing for the world economy. But for a world that relies too much on U.S. consumption, it faces grave risk if that growth engine gets derailed. Such is the case with the energy shock of 2005. If the over-extended American consumer gets hit?as I suspect will happen?Asia could be in serious trouble...
...month. Wholesale gas prices in China are currently about 80% of what the market price is in, say, Singapore. But fixing prices at an artificially low level also has the less-desirable effect of cutting profits at China's major refiners?all of which are state-owned. Energy analysts suspect this was one reason for the recent gasoline shortages in southern China, with some companies perhaps holding back oil from the domestic market rather than selling it at a steep discount. Still, the overall economic impact of higher fuel costs may not be calamitous, even if Beijing allows wholesale prices...