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...timing of all this is odd, though, given that the U.S. has recently made a show of rhetorical deference to its allies - President Bush said last week that he "will be patient and deliberate and ... consult with our friends and allies" before proceeding against Iraq - and the consensus in Washington is that an invasion is not imminent anyway. If an attack is far off and the Americans have promised due consultation, why all the fuss...
...wasted fuel consumption, with its accompanying pollution. Earlier this year, in the Italian industrial region of Lombardy, air-particle counts five times the alert level were being recorded. That meant Italians in many cities, including Milan, were restricted to driving on alternate days, based on whether they have odd or even registration-plate numbers...
...hair than a pioneering television chef. But now that the design phase of the exhibition is complete (and my computer is officially dead, blinking disk and all, for the second time this summer), as an exhibition design intern, my work has dwindled. As such, I have resorted to doing odd jobs—the definition of an intern’s work, I suppose—in the aforementioned fishbowl...
...dead. Even off the battlefield, military life is stressful, but men in the military have almost exactly the same rate of spousal abuse as civilians of the same age and demographic profile, according to Richard Heyman of the State University of New York. "I do think it's odd for there to be a concentration in one locale of homicides like this," says Deborah Tucker, co-chair of a Defense Department task force on domestic violence. "But if you think about it, we have 2,000 women killed every year in America [by partners or exes]. There's going...
Person of the Week As a voice of moderation in foreign policy, he has lately seemed the odd man out in the hawkish Bush administration. But after gaining a bit of rapprochement with "axis of evil" member North Korea and scoring $50 million in anti-terror aid for Indonesia at last week's asean meeting, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell regains credibility...