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...fall of the Soviet Empire, the Treasury Secretary has vaulted past the Secretaries at State and Defense in Washington's pecking order. Our national security is increasingly defined by economics: America now defends currencies more often than it defends borders, and its stability has been threatened as much by Russian hedge funds as rogue Russian nukes. But O'Neill's immediate task is to translate still nascent Bush economic policies to lawmakers and financial markets at a time when the engine of the world economy is downshifting. "He has been getting ready for this all his life," said Frank Zarb...
Until recently, the U.S. could act as the economic engine for the world, intervening to minimize the damage in the Asian financial crises of 1997 and the Russian debt shock of 1998. But as faster communication brings the world closer together, "it raises the risk of a globalized synchronized recession," says Morgan Stanley Dean Whitter chief global economist Stephen Roach. "We're already seeing that unfold as we speak...
...together, as if drawing a chain of DNA. This too I more or less mastered, while achieving some success at its inversion, the backward swizzle. I went home elated and then was tickled to find an ice-skating movie on cable called The Cutting Edge. In the movie, the Russian coach counsels his ice dancers, "Douglas, you are stem. Katia, you are petal. Together, you make flower." I was starting to feel a little floral myself--until the next lesson...
...Learning never to do the Heimlich on a black belt b. "Daniel-san" in Karate Kid IX: Russian Roulette c. Taking in local sights after the G-8 summit in Japan d. Regretting his promise to crack down on the Russian...
...Frankenfoods stirred a tempest in a taco shell when genetically engineered feed corn not deemed safe for human consumption (because it might cause allergic reactions) turned up at Taco Bells and other outposts in the human food supply. It was big year in space too, as a team of Russian and American astronauts took occupancy of the new space station, and astronomers (armed with a new generation of smart telescopes and a fleet of clever space-going robots) snapped brilliantly sharp pictures of fire storms on the sun and watermarks on Mars, and brought the number of planets discovered outside...