the first dramatic signal from the U.S. administration that it is now ready to confront the pandemic and to save or prolong millions of lives.

Historically, there is no correlation between what markets do in the first week of the year and what they do in the year as a whole.

With a passive tag, the transmissions are limited as the only signal comes from a transmitter/receiver and tend to be spasmodic.

What the Bush administration is primarily interested in is regime change in the United States, not regime change in Iraq or South East Asia or the Balkans. A foreign war is a wonderful lollipop to stuff in the mouth of a possibly quarrelsome press.

The degree to which the Bush administration is willing to invest in conventional national security spending relative to basic domestic security measures is considerable.

You can't picture NOTHING, because as soon as you do, it's SOMETHING.