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...hugely useful and a big hit. But coupled with Microsoft's push into your private life--you also have to register online or by phone to activate XP, and messages on the task bar are forever bugging you to sign up for Passport, the company's controversial online wallet system--it's a little too creepy...
...Libya has lost its taste for terror, most experts believe, and Iraq's Saddam Hussein has always favored loud, brutish force over quiet finesse. Besides, no group other than Osama bin Laden's loose knit network of operatives in dozens of countries worldwide has ever shown the will, wallet or gall to attack the U.S. before. Bin Laden is responsible for the attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Three weeks ago when he told an Arab journalist he would mount an unprecedented attack on the U.S. "This was well funded and well planned," said Senator Pat Roberts...
...marketplace that trades $50 billion of stocks every session, the turn-of-the-century days when a man like J.P. Morgan could open his wallet and singlehandedly keep a floor under the market are probably gone forever. There has been some talk of a buying show of patriotism from investors and traders, but no one can say with any finality what the financial-services herd will do when it is released back into its natural environment. One thing is certain: This time, stability - or some semblance of it - will have to be a group effort...
...Libya has lost its taste for terror, most experts believe, and Iraq's Saddam Hussein has always favored loud, brutish force over quiet finesse. Besides, no group other than Osama bin Laden's loose knit network of operatives in dozens of countries worldwide has ever shown the will, wallet or gall to attack the U.S. before. Bin Laden is responsible for the attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Three weeks ago when he told an Arab journalist he would mount an unprecedented attack on the U.S. "This was well funded and well planned," said Senator Pat Roberts...
...course, cycles have a way of coming back and biting themselves on the ass, and the potential disaster lurking in the jump in the unemployment number is that it will scare the consumer into closing his wallet. (And unemployment, lagging indicator that is, could rise further even as a recovery gets underway.) A falloff in consumer spending, of course, is bad for everybody - without customer demand waiting for them, businesses will continue to cut costs but not make anything new, and this whole near-recession wouldn?t be long in turning into a real one. That?s the bad news...