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...rout from Afghanistan, al-Qaeda and Taliban remnants are standing tall again. Besides taking potshots at Americans, they are also going after perceived local enemies. So far this year, 11 people suspected of informing on al-Qaeda have been murdered in the Switzerland-size, semiautonomous tribal land. An agent of Pakistan's much feared secret intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, was shot in March as he rode his motorcycle in daylight. A tribal chief's son sitting outside his shop in the marketplace of Wana was mowed down in July by a pair of gunmen...
...many years now, American business culture has fostered a form of star worship that even a Hollywood agent might find excessive. Starting in the early 1980s with the first waves of corporate restructuring that sent millions of company men and women into the streets, the American work force's steady-Eddie performers gradually lost status to corporate hotshots and those with star potential. In the so-called war for talent, A-list players were showered with cash, stock options and perks. And in the boom years of the late 1990s, they could do no wrong. Yet it was mostly...
Space Tourism Two civilians have each paid $20 million to visit the International Space Station, courtesy of the Russians and booking agent Space Adventures, and a dozen more are in training. On deck: 10-minute thrill rides in suborbital flight...
Apparently, sometimes all you need to commit yourself to a career that means risking your life and distancing yourself emotionally from your friends and family is a quick look at a hot chick. So the CIA has persuaded Alias star JENNIFER GARNER--who plays a CIA agent on TV--to appear in a college recruitment video. Having successfully appealed to pathological liars earlier this year with that whole African yellowcake scandal, the CIA has moved on to the horny-young-boys phase of its rebuilding process. Meanwhile, Kiefer Sutherland has got to be considering hiring Garner's agent...
...upcoming spin-off of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, to be called Straight Eye for the Queer Guy, will be cast with an FBI agent, a lumberjack, an NFL linebacker...