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...Utter chaos, untold mayhem"--those were but a few of the gloomy predictions on what changing over to the euro would cause in France. But the arrival of the euro proved to be a fabulous and magical moment, as distrust gave way to sheer excitement. Oddly enough, for all the minor inconveniences that switching to a totally new currency overnight could have generated, there was a prevailing sense of conviviality and togetherness as French people started fiddling with their euro coins and bills. Buying my usual baguette at my local bakery on Jan. 1, I witnessed a spending frenzy...
Thanks to a 1996 reform that allowed the Chinese to purchase homes, mortgage lending has skyrocketed. And rising home prices have encouraged homeowners to buy more furnishings. "The property-market story is probably the most compelling untold story," says Paul Matthews, chairman of Matthews Asian Funds, based in San Francisco...
...even without high-tech delivery systems, a single suicidal terrorist spraying a few drops of smallpox virus--or a liquid solution of Ebola or even plague--in a crowded mall or into the ventilation system of a large building could cause untold harm...
What is most disturbing of all is the fact that within the Middle East—where untold multitudes of people espouse beliefs that America’s now-familiar Muslim apologists insist are unrepresentative of mainstream Islam—there is a dearth of institutional voices condemning the fallacies of fanaticism. And yet such condemnations are precisely what is needed. The principled Muslim leaders of the West can do nothing to sway public opinion in Kabul or Karachi, Khartoum or Cairo. Absent a coordinated, concerted and continuous effort on the part of the Middle East’s clerics...