The possibility that Israel and Saudi Arabia may sit at the negotiating table together distinguishes this new chapter in peacemaking efforts from the failures of the past.
Is the music about to stop with everyone scrambling for a chair? The whole world has been enjoying easy and cheap credit through the globalization of finance, which has tapped the savings of billions of people in the developing countries. This in turn has fueled the longest and strongest period of global growth in modern history, the most spectacular effect of which has been a housing boom allowing millions of people to buy homes they never thought they could afford. But the credit boom, which also inflated the market price of stocks and bonds, is now being superseded by a global credit crunch.
Manufacturers of everything from running shoes to deodorants design products specifically for women. One of the latest entries: the first artificial joint created for-and heavily advertised to-females. Doctors say it's too soon to tell whether the Gender Knee represents a giant leap for womankind or if it gives its maker, Zimmer Holdings Inc., a leg up in the market.
AP - Divers spent a third fruitless day searching for victims of a deadly bridge collapse, finding no bodies inside a crushed car pulled earlier Saturday from the murky Mississippi River waters.
AP - With a short swing, a half stare and an emphatic clap of his hands, Barry Bonds rounded the bases. After so many days and so many tries, he had finally caught Hammerin' Hank.
AP - The House approved modest changes to President Bush's record Pentagon budget proposal early Sunday, but Democrats signaled plans to resume a more contentious debate over the Iraq war after the August recess.
The House late Saturday night approved the Republican version of a measure amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by a vote of 227-183, with most Republicans and conservative Democrats supporting the bill..
A soldier convicted of rape and murder in the death of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the slayings of her family was sentenced Saturday to 110 years in prison. Pfc. Jesse Spielman received the longest sentence of four soldiers who have been convicted.
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