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...taken hostage in Bosnia and murdered in Chechnya. CARE recently reported that armed attacks on aid workers in Afghanistan have increased during the past year from one a month to one every two days. James Ron, Canada research chair in conflict and human rights at McGill University, links the uptick to the growing number of people doing this work and their increased willingness to operate in hostile areas. At the same time, combatants determined to undermine order have learned that upsetting relief work is a promising tactic. "An attack on the Red Cross is a signal to everyone that peace...
...even older pipes, and over time this can cause blindness, brain damage and death. Emory University toxicologist Brent Morgan, who co-wrote the Emergency Medicine study, has seen health problems like disorientation, anemia, kidney failure and ulcers. He says colleagues in other Southern cities have noted a similar uptick in moonshine-related maladies. But supplies seem as healthy as ever. Virginia officials busted a giant 30,000-gal. operation in May, and Georgia law-enforcement officials have shut down at least four stills in the past year. --By Greg Land
Wedding planners and consultants are noting a trend, and several online and in-store bridal registries have recorded an uptick in disengagements. At Bloomingdale's, would-be brides and grooms often "postpone" their registry rather than attend to the unpleasant errand of canceling. Such postponements are up 15% in the past two years, according to Morgan Childs, Bloomingdale's bridal consultant in New York City. WeddingChannel.com a popular online registry, counted 5% to 10% of its wedding registries "deactivated" last year. Erin Howlett-Avci, a former assistant registry director at Michael C. Fina in New York City, recalls that...
...this has prompted a host of foreign and domestic observers to conclude?as many have during every uptick since the early 1990s?that Japan's decisive economic turnaround has finally begun. Merrill Lynch's chief Japan economist, Jesper Koll, has gone so far as to declare in the Daily Yomiuri newspaper that the economy has reached an "inflection point." "Make no mistake," he asserts. "Japan is back...
...might have thought that online stock brokers had disappeared along with the Furby. But surprise: the rebounding stock market is lifting the online brokerage boats into real profits. Says Angus Rigby, vice president of U.K. online broker, TD Waterhouse: "We've learned which costs to cut, and now an uptick in [trading] volume means a surge in profits." Talk about an uptick - Rigby says his company has done 70% more trades this year than last. On the Continent, volumes are up less dramatically, but profits are still impressive. Commerzbank subsidiary Comdirect, for example, generated more than six times as much...