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...cannot be and should not be viewed as the policeman of the world" and that the new hot spot is not in the "vital interest" of the U.S. This from the man who only months ago was advancing the Clinton policy that we all had a moral obligation to help the Kosovar Albanians against the oppressive Serbian regime. Perhaps U.S. motivations were not so humanitarian as claimed. ROBERT C. MULLINS Geneva...
...improve education at every level," says Varian, "including elementary, high school, college and, most important, continuing and on-the-job education." Otherwise, a worsening skills shortage could dim the promise that the Internet will help narrow the gap between rich and poor. The gap could get even wider...
...which may take many years to justify their current prices, if they ever do. The result may be a "bubble" of inflated prices for some Internet and IT companies, ending in a crash. Varian observes that the vastly greater speed of business information collecting and decision making ought to help executives avoid costly mistakes. But, he adds, there is a "dark side of the force. When you do make a mistake, it can be a lot bigger...
...Bradley would read as St. Onge did her homework, and sometimes she would ask him questions. "He'd give these elaborate, wonderful 'I-was-there' kind of answers," she recalls. Once, when she was studying Vietnam, he brought out textiles from there, which she used to help illustrate her report...
FINAL CARE Doctors and health experts have long known that much of the help for patients with terminal and chronic illnesses comes from family members. A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that the burden is heaviest when the relative is suffering from a chronic illness like heart disease, which doesn't garner as much public attention or medical support as cancer. Such care, they note, disproportionately falls to women, who handle it in 72% of cases...