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...almost a year later, the Afghanistan-phase of the war on terrorism is not yet over - if anything, appears to be presenting increasingly complex nation-building challenges. And at home, the economy rather than terrorism appears to be the more palpable source of insecurity for most Americans, and that shift has translated into softening poll numbers for the Bush administration and the GOP. Unease on both sides of the congressional aisle over initiating a war that could cost thousands of American lives and tens of billions of dollars and potentially jeopardize the position of the U.S. and its closest allies...
...goal, which you would not achieve until 2028, when you're--gasp!--66. So much for retiring early. Of course, if you could save more and returns improved, you would get to the $1 million mark faster than on that grim schedule. But it adds up to a dramatic shift in your plans and dreams. "It's almost impossible to overstate how many people thought that the booming stock market of the '90s would continue indefinitely," says John Rother, policy director at the retiree-advocacy group AARP...
...shrinking pension--or none at all--is something more Americans will have to get used to in coming years. The shift by employers from defined-benefit plans (traditional pension plans that guarantee income for life) to defined-contribution plans (the tax-favored, employer-sponsored savings plans such as 401(k)s that do not provide guarantees) is beginning to have a devastating effect. In 1975, according to the Labor Department, 29% of workers named guaranteed pensions as their primary retirement plan, and only 4% relied on 401(k)-type plans. By 1998, the most recently available data show, the numbers...
...shift risks being seen as a slap in the face to extremely powerful interests in Kabul. In the first days after the Taliban's fall Karzai kept a small band of Pashtun soldiers from his Kandahari home close to him. But tensions with the Tajik-dominated Northern Alliance forces, who fought the Taliban for close to six years and have now assumed control of much of the government, meant the future president had to send his soldiers away. Since then his personal security has been in the hands of the most formidable Northern Alliance commander in Afghanistan, defense minister Mohammed...
...conference also marked a shift away from looking for cure and toward finding new ways of prevention "We're going back to the original goal in this fight, which was the preventative vaccine," says Dr. Ronald Kennedy, chair of the department of microbiology and immunology at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, and an expert on the spread of AIDS and the search for a vaccine. The fight against AIDS is no longer about wiping out all traces of the virus in the bloodstream, says Dr. Kennedy. Now scientists are focusing on the development of an HIV/AIDS vaccine that behaves...