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...genome itself - to suggest a more nuanced and complicated idea of what it means to be a human being. We are all more similar than racists or nationalists like to think: the genetic variance throughout the 6 billion humans on earth amounts to less than that in a single troop of chimpanzees. But those genes have afforded us an ability to adapt from foraging for hazelnuts to searching the Web in the evolutionary blink of an eye. What happens in the next blink is anybody's guess...
...theory, the fired Dell workers should land on their feet. Most have highly marketable skills, and unemployment in the area is near 2%. Every day they troop to a "career center" in northwest Austin. They check out websites like computerjobs.com and a bulletin board that boasts 30 "success stories"--only limited consolation given that companies where they might naturally land--Intel, Motorola and Verizon--have also been trimming workers. Doug Hutter, 41, with two kids at home, lost his job as an IT specialist Feb. 15. "I'm starting to get scared," he says. "I'm wondering where the next...
...tariff. But just as there was a bigger picture (Taiwan, trade) to U.S.-China relations than one errant spy plane, there's a bigger picture to Europe-U.S. relations than bananas. Like Bush pulling out of Kyoto. Or insisting on a missile-defense shield. Or reassessing U.S. European troop balance in the Balkans...
...NATO members, particularly the United States, had hoped by now to be able to start reducing its troop commitments in the Balkans. But the first thaws of spring have once again ushered in the traditional Balkan fighting season, and there's plenty of work, once again, for peacekeepers...
When hard-liner Benjamin Netanyahu took over in 1996, he made Arafat's life miserable. He delayed troop withdrawals and proceeded with construction of Jewish settlements. Later, under Barak, building continued apace. As Israelis became angry with outbreaks of violence and terrorism, ordinary Palestinians too grew disillusioned with the peace process. Palestinians felt Israel would never agree to their genuine independence. Without an end-of-conflict pact in sight, Arafat's place in history was never more on the line. When he signed the Oslo compromise, cries of betrayal arose from the militant Islamic group Hamas and such respected intellectuals...