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The economic news continues to be pretty bleak. Jobless claims rose to their highest levels in a year last Thursday, marking their 10th straight week above 400,000. In recent weeks, cash-strapped states and cities across the country have announced new taxes and painful spending cuts for police, schools...
When you consider mankind's ever-lengthening roster of public menaces - terrorism, SARS, North Korean nukes - the perils posed by a voracious race of self-replicating robotic organisms might seem pretty low on the list. But the Prince of Wales has let it be known that he is so perturbed...
Lewis’ unexpected ouster leaves the council leaders worrying that they won’t have the administrative conduit and open ear that, many say, has facilitated the groups rise to greater legitimacy over the past few years.
I was strolling up and down the new releases aisle a few days go and quickly came across The Pianist—one of this year’s surprising Oscar favorites. I read across the tape’s glossy cover: “Best Actor,�...
Although many U.S. combat teams were trained to look out for signs of banned weapons in facilities they overran, the dedicated inspection teams sent in by the Pentagon as the fighting died down initially focused on the 150 "hottest" suspected WMD sites identified by U.S. intelligence before the war - and...