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...look more like space ships than buildings. Much of the growth has happened in the last ten years, a result of the techno-globalism party everyone seemed to still be celebrating. "Like bamboo shoots," beamed manager of the Peace Hotel restaurant who wore the nametag Sheriff Shaung, as he swept his hand over a long grove of buildings that had sprung up in the last ten years...
Similar scares swept the Columbus Dispatch in Ohio and the rural biweekly Dickson Herald in Tennessee. Fox News in New York revealed that a letter addressed to its president, Roger Ailes--opened, as was Brokaw's letter, by an assistant--had also contained a mysterious white powder. And in Reno, Nev., officials said a letter returned to a Microsoft Corp. office from Malaysia, apparently having been intercepted and tampered with, had initially tested positive for traces of anthrax...
...Most of the news about Indonesia that reaches the U.S. comes from the cities of Java - Jakarta, Surabaya, Solo and Yogyakarta - where demonstrations are held frequently outside US consular facilities. This is where extremist groups generally issue their threats, warning that Americans and foreigners will be "swept" out of the country by Islamic groups. The problem has been not so much the threats themselves as the government?s lack of response to them. Instead of condemning the intimidation, the government seems to first avoid making any comment and then, when pressed, to assure people that the extremists are far more...
...Then suddenly House Speaker Dennis Hastert was announcing the House of Representatives would be shut down through Tuesday while bio-detectives swept the offices. Tom Daschle?s list of anthrax scares was into the dozens, and George Pataki was starting one of his own. And stocks started slipping, and slipping, until the Dow?s 100-point opening-bell rally was 20, 30, 100 points into the red. Not exactly crashing, but not threatening to turn around any time soon...
...BANGLADESH Opposition Victory The power struggle between two former women Prime Ministers continued after Begum Khaleda Zia swept to power and was immediately challenged by ousted leader Sheik Hasina Wazed. Unofficial results gave the alliance led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party two-thirds of the 300 seats in Parliament in a general election marred by violence but described by international monitors as "generally free and fair...