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...case Iraq uses chemical weapons. "You can't keep worrying about it, but the possibility of a gas attack is always in the back of your mind," says Brack, who took this week's cover picture. The subject, however, rarely comes up in Brack's conversations with the soldiers; instead, the troops keep asking him what the people back home think about the crisis. "I'll bet I'm asked for the latest news at least 20 times a day," he says...
Secretary of Defense DICK CHENEY had booked part of August off in Wyoming, but thanks to Saddam Hussein, he has instead seen a lot of the Middle East...
Originally known as the "voucher system" and now often referred to under the innocuous shorthand of "choice," the theoretical concept is daringly simple. Instead of funding and administering public schools through stifling bureaucracies, government would provide tuition vouchers for every student. These could be cashed in at any state-certified school -- public, private or perhaps even parochial. Ideally, the result would be that schools of all kinds -- both old and new -- would jostle and compete in the free marketplace...
Given those prospects, the West might decide instead to negotiate. And Saddam could find that very appealing. "I don't think the Iraqis are looking for it now," says a U.S. official. "But what they might be after, as pressure begins to take effect, is a solution that preserves as many gains as possible from their conquest of Kuwait." Some experts, like Richard Murphy, a senior fellow at the New York Council on Foreign Relations, think that if such a point is reached, both sides will acquiesce. "Money will be paid to an aggressor, or land," he says...
...reliable supply, every year that we pay $10 instead of $21 for foreign oil, we could buy an extra year's supply to sock away if we wanted to, and we would still come out ahead. Meanwhile, more domestic oil would remain in the ground for future...