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Indeed it is entirely baffling to me why the conventional wisdom that “poverty breeds terrorism” survived for as long as it did. While the Middle East’s great wealth is not evenly spread, the average citizen’s standard of living there is considerably higher than in most parts of the world. Pakistan and Indonesia, two recent terror hotspots, likewise are not particularly wealthy but neither are they particularly poor, their incomes ranking somewhere in the middle worldwide. And, the most well-known perpetrators of terror, the thugs that carried out 9/11...
...SPREAD THE WEIGHT A couple of smaller bags allow you to distribute the load more evenly than one big one. If you're wearing a backpack, don't sling it over just one shoulder. If you really must carry a duffel bag, switch shoulders early and often...
...insecurity. Most reliable estimates put Iraqi deaths at about 15,000 since the war began. Analysts inside and outside Iraq say Bush needs to come to grips with the fact that the insurgency is growing more efficient and more professional, its footprint keeps widening and its ability to spread carnage keeps increasing. Publicly, U.S. officials estimate that some 12,000 insurgents are under arms, but privately they say the number may be closer to 20,000. The violence has throttled reconstruction programs that might once have won the U.S. a base of support, and it's hard...
...prospect of becoming the most important global power in 20 years." Of Europe's three most prominent antiwar leaders, only German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder urged cooperation. His congratulatory telegram to Bush pointed out that "our security and stability are threatened by international terrorism, the risk of the spread of weapons of mass destruction, regional crises, poverty, climate change and epidemics. These challenges can only be met together...
...presidential nominee John Edwards; for breast cancer, diagnosed definitively a day after the election; in Washington. After four months of chemotherapy, Edwards is scheduled to undergo a lumpectomy - a procedure that removes the tumor and surrounding tissue while preserving the breast. A family spokesman said the cancer had not spread...