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Even if he has to be carried by guards to his chair behind the empty table reserved for defense lawyers, Milosevic will be at the trial. He will get equal time to make an opening statement. If past appearances offer any clue, he will claim he was just defending his country, just fighting terrorists like the U.S. is now, just suffering from NATO aggression. He will force the court to broadcast, as it has before, Serbian translation of the testimony from a loudspeaker. He will look bored, yawn, stare impatiently at his watch when prosecutors speak...
...printing money to offset a liquidity crisis, the currency is sliding fast. It hit 134 to the dollar last week, a 15% decline since a year ago. The decline has prompted cries of foul from U.S. manufacturers over the competitive edge a weak currency gives Japanese products. But an equal concern is that an ever weaker yen will force devaluations throughout Asia, exacerbating trade tensions everywhere. Says Kenneth Courtis, Goldman Sachs Asia vice chairman: "It is now really important to get Japan back on track economically, because their problems are about to become ours...
...often does that happen? Statisticians estimate that 20 of every 100 women who get only mastectomy (or lumpectomy plus radiation) for a 2-cm tumor that has not spread to the lymph nodes would, all other things being equal, suffer a recurrence sometime in the next five to 10 years. Fourteen of those tumors would have come back regardless of whether any additional therapies had been tried. The remaining six would have been prevented by chemotherapy. "For a 6% improvement, that's a lot of women who have to accept chemotherapy," says Dr. Gralow at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research...
...Strong" isn't the adjective that leaps to mind when one fingers the flimsy funny money. Roughly the size of a business card, the yufu doesn't have pictures of Presidents; it doesn't come in denominations (although by local convention one yufu is equal to 100 yen, or 75 cents.) The only embellishment distinguishing a yufu from a Post-it note is a rendering of the mountains that surround the town of 12,000 people in Oita prefecture on Kyushu Island...
...importance of this gap despite her acknowledgment of legislation meant to counter it. “A significant part of our society,” she says, “believes that since laws have been put in place to ‘equalize’ things, everyone has equal opportunity.” Indeed, Loury explains that since our country’s laws (as well as its ideals of freedom, democracy and equal opportunity) condemn racism, many Americans see policies that explicitly take race into account as unnecessary, or even as a sort of “reverse...