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...idea to be able to buy wholesale in a free market and turn around and sell at a capped rate to consumers," says Wilson, "because for a long time, at least, they would enjoy the ability to make a profit doing so." But they were gambling that they could wheel and deal their way through the marketplace without exposure to price swings...
...handles. Consumers Union, the nonprofit organization that publishes Consumer Reports, last week criticized the ratings for this reason. Increasingly, the top-selling SUVs have a battery of onboard systems that help prevent a rollover, including antilock brakes, independent suspensions and computerized monitoring systems that adjust power to each wheel when a skid begins...
Travel is the purest expression of freedom. Hop a plane or a train or get behind the wheel and in a few hours you can escape--from the routine, the familiar, to something new, exotic, liberating. But for years the travel industry has managed (or mismanaged) to drain much of the freedom and spontaneity out of travel. Planning a big summer trip with the kids? Better make your reservations now. Want to take a flight that doesn't set you back a month's salary? Better buy your ticket weeks ahead of time. And God forbid you should want...
...clearly too soon to declare victory in the war on cancer, since 9 out of 10 new treatments will fail clinical trials. But doctors who treat the disease are experiencing a surge of optimism the likes of which they have never felt before. "It's no longer spin the wheel, let's try this drug, maybe it will work," says Henry Friedman, a neuro-oncologist at Duke University Medical Center. "We're going to know why a drug is or isn't working." And given the nature of cancer and the scientists who study it, if one approach doesn...
Djibouti and a few Arab states helped underwrite the peace conference and provided four-wheel drives for the President and Prime Minister, and a few thousand police uniforms. But big money from Western governments will be harder to come by. During the cold war, Somalia attracted more aid per capita than any other African state, first from the Soviets and then from the U.S. "It's true that we had a dependency," says Mahamoud Mohamed Uluso, a minister in the Barre government. But once the cold war ended, the money dried up. What followed made many donor nations wary...