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...empire in, say, 1949, when it sat behind its great wall of tank armies and nuclear bombers in static defense of large territories in Western Europe and the Pacific Rim. That empire we are in the process of dismantling. The Soviets are gone, and those places, having risen from the ashes, are quite capable of defending themselves. The threat from North Korea, for example, is no longer the spread of communism but of nuclear weapons. The response should be not a sitting-duck standing army but a quick and light air-sea reaction force...
Mountain-biking injuries have plummeted since the mid-'90s. About 48,600 people sustained such injuries in 1995, reports the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission. In 2001 the figure was 19,500, a 60% drop. In the meantime, ridership has risen 26%, according to the National Sporting Goods Association...
...family won yet another privatization bid, this one for the petroleum company Petkim, though it's unclear how it will come up with the down-payment by August's deadline. Yet no one denies that Uzan's far-right nationalist Youth Party is a political threat. Support has risen in internal polls from 7% to 17% in the past eight months. A minimum of 10% is needed to win seats in parliament. Analysts attribute the spike to economic hard times - Cem is seen by many as a Turkish version of Silvio Berlusconi, an entrepreneur whose appeal lies in his business...
...Northern Indiana Public Service Co., known as NIPSCO. In March 2002, Wilson paid the utility 33¢ a heating unit for the family's two-bedroom home. By March of this year, the price had shot up to 86¢, an increase of 161%. If the price of new cars had risen at the same pace, a midrange Ford Taurus would sell for $54,000 today. Says Wilson: "I never turn my heat up past 68. I didn't want to turn my ceiling fan on." (NIPSCO also furnishes her electricity.) "How can other people on fixed incomes...
...decade before the act's passage, gasoline consumption had risen 48%, to 6.5 million bbl. a day in 1974. In years to follow, even with millions more cars on the highways, consumption remained largely unchanged. Beginning at 7 million bbl. a day in 1976, demand went up and down in a narrow range and by 1991 was at just 7.2 million...