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These are desperate times in Israel. Even though Israeli security officials in Jerusalem are on maximum alert - and have foiled a number of suicide bombing attempts in the past week - one terrorist, sent by Islamic Jihad, slipped through. And he managed to kill 17 Israelis and wound 70 more in a packed pizzeria. As news of the latest outrage broke, Palestinian security officials began hurriedly evacuating their premises, knowing that a fearsome Israeli retaliation is all but inevitable. The last vestiges of the cease-fire brokered by CIA chief George Tenet will probably have been laid to rest by dawn...
Suddenly, this is no longer news about a missing woman, young enough to be your daughter, or about a mother and father, terrified enough to be you. It becomes: Doesn't Condit look like the wound-tight kind of guy who might do away with an inconvenience or a threat? And what about that wristwatch box he tossed in the trash...
...Bogotá, a city where the dormant economy hurts as much as the violence from the civil war, a soccer tournament has taken a greater importance than tired peace talks. Because, however fleetingly, in Colombia soccer heals any wound...
...wound up notching 120 points. But don?t get used to it. Wall Street has lately begun to crow about this being "the bottom," and they may have a point. After racking up its worst July in a long, long while, NASDAQ still hasn?t budged since April and seems to have settled in around 2,000. The Dow may be doing the same thing somewhere in the 10,500 range. But bottoms don?t change into bounces just because they?re been at bottom for a few months - the whole decade of the '70s was a bottom, practically...
...Swoosh got into the golf-ball business on the cheap three years ago and, remarkably, has already pulled down 5% of the market. Part of Nike's secret is a simple technological shift to a solid-core rubber ball, which travels considerably farther than the conventional ball, made of wound rubber bands. Other companies have moved to similar balls. Titleist's Pro V1 solid-core balls are now so popular that they are being rationed to retailers...