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Still there is a growing suspicion in global financial circles that the dollar may be at its peak and poised for at least a slight decline. While the Federal Reserve is trying hard to slow the U.S. economy, growth is picking up in other parts of the world. Output is forecast to rise about 3% this year in "Euroland" (the 11 nations that use the euro as a trading currency). Japan is crawling out of recession, and though growth there is feeble, it has still been enough to hold the yen steady against the dollar. Europeans point out too that...
...real employment," says Morrison. Between 1969 and 1991, Robinson was convicted at least four times of embezzlement. He then allegedly used his financial gains to snare young women, promising them jobs and cash. He shifted his activities behind the cloak of the Internet, police say, when he believed suspicion might fall on him for the disappearances...
...Suspicion fell quickly on a possible culprit in the Philippines, in part because the virus' eight pages of computer code contained a tantalizing word: Barok. A search of virus registries quickly revealed that it was the name of a so-called Trojan horse, a stealthy software program that filches passwords, written by a Filipino hacker last year. Still, the transparency of this clue suggested that the word might have been inserted as a deliberate smoke screen to fool the computer sleuths. By week's end, the work of investigators was further complicated by the appearance of a number of copycat...
...responsibilities extend beyond her infant and her mother. Matt, the baby's father and an internist at a Boston HMO, has two young sons from his first marriage, which has recently ended in divorce. Kate was not the cause of their parents' breakup, but the boys treat her with suspicion and sometimes open hostility. And then there is Matt himself, who had been her lover for only eight months when Kate became pregnant and saddled with responsibilities. They plan to marry in the June following their son's birth, but Kate occasionally wonders whether he will still want...
...practice has become knows as "driving while black or brown," the only charge of which the motorists seem to be guilty. The courts have consistently maintained the unconstitutionality of the practice, with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in April that police must have a reasonable suspicion that a crime has occurred before they can stop someone on the street...