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Much hinges on things we can't know. For example, will there be more such assaults? Will U.S. retaliation spur broad unrest in the Muslim world and perhaps threaten oil supplies? Until these questions are resolved, investors and consumers will sit on their wallets. Meanwhile, what we do know is plainly awful. Consumer confidence, already at an eight-year low before last Tuesday, will fall further. George Mees Jr., owner of GEM Floor Sanding Service in Villa Park, Ill., had a sale fall through just hours after the attacks. "I'm sure to get cancellations," he says. "Nobody's going...
...return to church, limited so far to one hour of one day, into an exemplary tale. The truth be told, I am frightened, now more than ever, of exemplary tales, of the lives of saints, martyrs, heroes, and other great individuals. I am frightened because such tales can spur emulative actionsmore martyrs and more heroesthat do not always, by any stretch of the imagination, advance the cause of peace...
...week on his favorite topic, education, in an effort to get his stripped-down reform plan out of Congress and onto his desk. And toward the end of the month he will launch what aides are touting as a major new initiative called "Communities of Character"--an attempt to spur responsible behavior through policies aimed at teaching character education in schools, helping the children of prison inmates and encouraging volunteerism. Bush will also make simple bully-pulpit appeals to patriotic and civic pride. "It's why he ran for office," says White House Counsellor Karen Hughes. "It's the essence...
Success in competitive running comes from pushing yourself hardest when your body is most exhausted and when the rewards are most distant. It comes from all those weekend and early-morning runs alone, without teammates to spur you on. Those who have trained with Alan say his efforts in practice are even more impressive than the record he set. As amazing as his 3:53.43 was in May, it is possible his best races are yet to come. His toughest challenge now may be the burden of high expectations...
...Microsoft?remain warily on the sidelines, unsure if they can profit in China's savage market. Today, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard have a combined market share of under 3%; Palm and IBM don't even sell PDAs on the mainland and there isn't enough Mandarin software to spur consumer interest. "We know this is a weakness," concedes Franklin Sze, product director for Compaq's iPAQ in Greater China. Preoccupied with tough times at home and hobbled by supply problems, U.S. PDA manufacturers have focused international efforts instead on affluent consumers in Europe and Japan. "When you first look...