A FRIEND,
who is real estate developer, told me he gets up before dawn to make a list of the things he needs to do and people he needs to reach during the day.
Increased alertness
to terrorist threats has led to unprecedented security measures in the weeks before the Presidential election in the United States, and at the Summer Olympics in Athens.
Not everyone
in California's Yosemite National Park these days is gazing up at the breathtaking granite walls of El Capitan and Half Dome, which rim the valley and captivate rock climbers with the awesome challenge they present.
IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE
anyone watching reports of the hostages in the Middle East and being unmoved by their condition or by concern for their loved ones.
As News Over The Last Few Weeks
has ricocheted from sickening photos out of the United States-run Abu Ghraib prison, to the revenge-video of the Nick Berg execution, to other abhorrent scenes, a war-weary global public is left reeling.
