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...making his way back to the U.S. from Switzerland) and the world?s central bankers are hoping for. Fearing panic - and that large dollar transactions could be lost in gaps in the infrastructure created by the World Trade Center disaster - the Federal Reserve requested Wednesday that central banks overseas limit the trading of dollars in the next few days while it copes with money supply issues. Indeed, dollar/yen trading Wednesday was limited and benign...
...count among their carry-ons video-production equipment--or 300-lb. bodyguards. Though the investigation into the crash of the plane carrying R.-and-B. star Aaliyah is not complete, one thing is becoming certain: the twin-engine Cessna 402B was too heavy to fly. With a maximum weight limit of 6,300 lbs. for takeoff, the loaded plane minus the passengers weighed in, officials estimate, at 5,495 lbs., leaving just 805 lbs. of capacity for the pilot and eight others. One of them, Aaliyah's bodyguard, Scott Gallin, weighed 300 lbs. Unless the others weighed less than...
...said President Bush believes the Kyoto treaty is "fatally flawed because it doesn't require developing countries to limit their fossil-fuel use immediately, as it does industrialized countries," and therefore he retreated from discussions in Bonn [NATION, Aug. 6]. Bush fails to acknowledge that most developing countries don't have the resources to implement dramatic change in their fuel-use policies right away. The U.S. clearly does, however, and we must do so first and set the example for the world. We can't expect the stretched economies of Third World countries to bear the burden of measures...
...There may yet be some method, though, in NATO's fudging of the unresolved issues. For one thing, squeamishness in Western capitals about another Balkan peacekeeping mission may require such palpably deceptive promises as a 30-day limit on the deployment - after all, it's easier to cajole alliance members into expanding the terms of the mission once the troops are already on the ground. The early deployment may well be a primarily symbolic gesture, designed to generate psychological momentum behind the peace process...
...Berthillon still personally selects the grapes for his grape-rum ice cream. He also ensures that none of the chocolate ingredients has been scorched during preparation and, to limit nitrate levels, he uses only mineral water. Dairy products in Berthillon ice cream were supplied by the same Norman farmer for decades, and when the best fruit on offer in Paris is deemed not good enough, Berthillon will have mandarin oranges flown in from Sicily and fresh wild strawberries from Málaga...