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...provided little support to those moderate voices inside Saudi Arabia, largely to avoid doing anything that would undermine the regime and disrupt the world's energy market. But that's no longer good enough. As Sept. 11 showed, the security of the U.S. depends on more than cheap...
...regulatory palliatives are likely to be only temporary stopgaps. The region is awash in cheap diet aids manufactured in largely unregulated Chinese factories. Classified by many countries as "health food"?rather than as pharmaceutical products, which must pass rigorous safety tests before they can be marketed?the concoctions are readily imported and sold in Asian pharmacies and natural-medicine shops, even in beauty parlors and spas. Indeed, Asians tend to trust Chinese medicines as natural and safe dietary shortcuts based on 3,000 years of trial and error. Ancient Chinese apothecaries, however, never treated obesity. Lacking a time-tested herbal...
With a seemingly insatiable public appetite for cheap flights and new destinations, the no-frills airlines, which currently account for 7% of all air travel in Europe, are planning massive growth. "What we are striving to do now is to reduce the cost of air travel to make it accessible to everybody," says O'Toole. Ryanair recently placed an order for 100 Boeing 737 aircraft to be delivered before 2010 and is in discussions with 40 airports about new services. By 2010 it aims to be "the biggest scheduled airline in Europe and will carry 40 million passengers...
...Europe," says Andrew Holland, an ABN AMRO analyst in London. Indeed, Dunkin' Donuts closed its last U.K. outlet earlier this year. But the quality of Krispy Kreme's doughnuts is its biggest selling point. Even supposedly objective analysts gush when they talk about eating them. "It really is a cheap delight," says Wolf. That's why free tastings are a big part of the company's business model. Once they try one, Europeans may love Krispy Kreme doughnuts too. But getting them to take that first bite may prove harder than a three-day-old croissant...
...calories, but biting into a cheeseburger does not create a chemical hook in people's brains that keeps luring them back. Even Barber admits his choice to eat fast food was based on free will, telling the AP he started eating fast food in the 1950s because it was "cheap and efficient...