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...numbers may suggest otherwise. Dean seems to be tapping into a seam of online middle-class resentment. The vast majority of his 59,000 contributors gave less than $250; the average was $112. Dean may not have Gephardt's solid union support, but he is assembling a different kind of volunteer force, one made up of passionate and often disgruntled believers...
Chase hot investments, and you might get burned. Investors typically pour money in at the top--think tech stocks--and mutual-fund companies play along. Now it's bond funds. After three years of solid gains, some experts are calling the peak, yet investors, spooked by stock losses, are still piling in. They moved $63 billion into bond funds this year, a stark change from 2000, when they withdrew $50 billion. Fund companies follow the money, notes Standard & Poor's. While 14% of funds opened in 2000 were bond funds, they are 33% of new funds this year, says FundFiling.com...
...staked his reputation on his February declaration at the U.N. about Saddam Hussein's arms program, is also feeling the heat. Powell's aides fanned out after that performance to say the Secretary had gone to the CIA and scrubbed every piece of intelligence to make certain it was solid. But since then, little of Powell's presentation has been proved by evidence on the ground, and last week his aides were on the defensive over a memo from the State Department's intelligence bureau that questioned whether two Iraqi trailers discovered in April were mobile bioweapons labs, as Powell...
...peaceful power generation only. To ensure that is the case, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) along with the U.S. and the European Union are pressing Iran's leaders to sign an additional protocol to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty that would allow tougher IAEA inspections. There's no solid evidence in the public domain to indicate that Iran is chasing the Bomb?and in the aftermath of the debacle over Iraq's still-undiscovered weapons of mass destruction, it's impossible to conclude that the U.S. intelligence community has an abundance of secret knowledge of the Iran-North Korea partnership...
...machines called jet mills to Iran in 1999-2000. The company is also suspected of selling a jet mill to Pyongyang in the mid-1990s, according to the Japanese media, and police are investigating to determine whether any more recent sales were made to the North. Jet mills crush solid objects with highly pressurized air, and are most commonly used to pulverize plastics and pharmaceuticals. They can, however, also boost missile thrust by turning solid rocket fuel into fine particles, and are a restricted export under Japanese...