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...willing candidates is a difficult task. "Years ago, when Catholic families in Switzerland had many children, it was easier to fill the ranks," he says. "At times, there was even a waiting list. Now young people are more reluctant." Some say that Switzerland's strong economy may be to blame for dwindling ranks. A recruit earns about $1,000 a month, a low wage by Swiss standards. "When the country's economic situation is good, people are less attracted to low-paying jobs," Segmüller says. But Wyss points out that the Guards pay no taxes or health insurance...
...world the possibility of one of them falling into the hands of a rogue group - in this instance Neo-Nazis - is not entirely improbable. Nor is the possibility that they might detonate the thing in the U.S. (in Baltimore, at a Super Bowl game), hoping that we'll blame the Russians and get World War III up and running, dreaming, too, that the post-war world (or slag heap) they inherit will be safe for fascism...
...talk about it, we are talking about it, all the time. It is certainly not a topic for popular culture, especially the movies, to shy away from. It's always useful for a fiction to focus on, and help (if only temporarily) discharge our anxieties. You can't finally blame the people responsible for "The Sum of all Fears" for flunking this test. While they were making the movie last year, they were not privy to any FBI memos from Arizona about some weird guys taking flight training. They were probably, justifiably, pleased with their plausible, entertaining variations on standard...
...hardly blame Big Music execs for getting jumpy. Worldwide sales of recorded music fell 6.5% last year, according to the London-based International Federation of the Phonographic Industries. That meant a drop in revenue of $1.7 billion, the worst in the annals of the industry. Sales in industrial countries like Japan, Germany and Canada took an average 9% hit, while those in developing nations such as Brazil and Poland--drained by an epidemic of professionally pirated CDs--fell as much as 28%. In the U.S. not one album sold more than 5 million copies last year; in 2000, seven albums...
...Everyone laughed, but it wasn't altogether a joke. The not so well-kept secret in Havana is that Castro, 75, has always been a fan of the 40-year-old U.S. trade embargo against his communist island. El bloqueo, as Cubans call the "blockade," has helped Castro deflect blame for his economic blunders. Whenever the U.S. has looked poised to end the embargo, Castro has managed to unleash an outrage that has kept it alive, as in 1996, when his air force shot down and killed four Cuban exiles from Miami flying unarmed small planes near Havana...