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...Iraq, of course, remains top of President Bush's Axis-of-Evil to-do list. The optimal moment to launch an attack is in February or March next year, which requires the Administration to make its case for war in the next four to six weeks - without much help from Saddam, who appears inclined to allow the UN inspectors to poke around under his bed in order to keep the U.S. war machine at bay. And that leaves precious little time for Washington to address other international crises...
...Washington Post report that outlined a National Security Council task-force proposal to give the Saudis a 90-day deadline for cracking down on terrorism financiers. Senior aides insisted that Bush had no plans to issue an ultimatum, and Rice and CIA Director George Tenet demanded that the FBI launch a criminal investigation to find out who leaked the report. Meanwhile, every Administration heavy from Donald Rumsfeld to Colin Powell rushed to defend Bandar and the Saudis...
...that there's very little intermarrying with outsiders here. In Orroli we're all practically relatives. It's in the genes." That same logic--and the same propensity for long life in nearby towns--was what prompted Deiana, with his team of 25 Italian doctors and biologists, to launch a sweeping genetic study of every 100-plus person across the entire island. "You look at a Sardinian phone book, and you see there are relatively few last names," says Deiana, a researcher at the University of Sassari in northwest Sardinia. His project, which is partly funded by Duke University...
...TIME: You say Turkey will comply with any UN decision on Iraq. But what if the Bush Administration chooses to launch an attack without UN authorization...
...long way to go." Indeed, despite their successes, these remain tiny companies, each with annual revenues well under $50 million (compared with Yahoo's nearly $1 billion in sales). "NetEase isn't a rocket in flight," says one Internet-industry consultant. "It's only made it to the launch pad again." In the end, obscurity may be the best thing to happen to chortals. "It's been good that the spotlight hasn't been on them," says Steven Schwankert, an independent China-technology analyst based in Beijing. "They haven't had to be movie stars and were able...