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...Jakarta but abandoned an attack when he saw the compound's hefty security. Terrorists have switched to striking Westerners where the risks are lower. As a U.S. intelligence officer says, "One of the things that figures into their calculations are chances of success." So the terrorists are taking aim at accessible places --dance halls and hotels, shopping malls and tourist sites, the nightclub in Bali and the French tanker off Yemen--that are not and can never be very well protected. When the soft targets are linked to tourism in countries that count on it, the secondary economic impact...
...It’s just when we all put ourselves together it’s what comes out,” said Baker. To the delight of onlookers, it comes out in gleeful abundance. From their first song to their final perfectly executed unison jump, Riddlin’ Kids aim to please and generate raucous fun for all. These Texans certainly live up to their psycho-stimulant drug influenced name...
...Weaver, curator and co-organizer of The ChinaFilm Project, said the festival was only one component within the project’s broader aim of promoting mutual appreciation and respect, as well as improved economic relations, between the United States and China through film and other moving images...
...most important aim of the pledge is to raise consciousness of energy use,” said Rachelle K. Gould ’03, student co-captain of the Resource Efficiency Program, which is also sponsoring the campaign. “We want you to be proud of your commitment to the environment...
...that Serbian Vice Premier Nebojsa Covic recently ordered his assassination, and that Kostunica's office was "in a panic" to cover up evidence of its ties to organized crime. "They will sell everything that is worth selling to the foreigners and then move to the Bahamas," he said. "My aim," he later explained to TIME, "is to destroy the mafia. I am showing that I am not afraid of criminals no matter where they are." Others say he is doing what he has always done: dish the dirt against his political enemies. Milosevic and Seselj "want to make Serbia...