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Though Floyd wasn't Hurricane X, the long-awaited Big One is inevitable. Meteorologists believe that we're coming out of a 30-year period of relatively mild hurricanes (see accompanying story). Worse still, the increase in hurricane activity will threaten a coastline that has been experiencing a population explosion of remarkable proportions. More than 139 million people now live in hurricane-vulnerable coastal areas of the U.S., according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
...gifts" to consumers. Is this simply an inferiority complex masquerading as a lawsuit? According to Wallace, the continuing flood of lawsuits is partly due to a case of nerves within the German business community. "Here are 1,600 German companies, scanning the horizon, looking for anything that might threaten their business and profits ? and when they see something, they make a move to head off that potential threat." All this paranoia seems unreasonable to most U.S. consumers, to whom comparison shopping - and the freebies that come with it, like frequent flier miles - are taken for granted. While the German businesses...
...Rubin, contacted by TIME, denied all charges. He says he regularly sends communications to those who oppose EPA policy, not to harass or threaten but to inform...
...energy program in exchange for substantial energy and food aid from Japan, South Korea and the U.S. "We may be buying them off, but that?s the cheapest thing we can do at the moment," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Even if we were to send troops and threaten them, that would be unlikely to ease tensions. And the money does influence them." In these wacky post-Cold War times, it seems, one way for states short of funds and friends to get invited back to the party is simply to act a little crazy...
...case also has prompted outrage in local Latino communities and led Maryland congressional representatives to threaten a challenge to the $3 billion in aid the U.S. sends Israel every year. While it?s unlikely that the issue will seriously disrupt the U.S.-Israel relationship, it has spurred efforts in Israel to repeal the 1977 law that forbids the extradition of Israelis to stand trial abroad. One American for whom Sheinbein?s plea bargain may be particularly painful: Jonathan Pollard, who is serving a life sentence in a U.S. prison after his conviction in 1985 on charges of spying for Israel...