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...AIM Mail AOL's new free email service-named for (and promoted alongside) the company's hugely successful AOL Instant Messenger program, which is also free-debuted earlier this month, offering 2 gigabytes of free storage and a clean, straightforward interface (save for the banner-style ads). You don't have to download anything to register-just choose a screen name and password and you're good to go. If you have an existing AIM screen name, you can use that as your email address...
...World Bank, picked up a bean and asked a worker how he could tell that it was a good one. It's the color, the man said, launching into a lengthy lesson on the biochemical properties of coffee beans. "The sweetness comes from the sun," the man said. "We aim for a perfect water content of 10.5%." Wolfowitz listened intently and turned to an aide, impressed. "He's very exact," Wolfowitz said. Wolfowitz has a lot more number crunching ahead of him. As the unlikely new executive of an institution focused on improving living standards in the developing world...
...days between the bombings and the election on March 14, which ushered the Socialists into power. In its report, the PP not only refutes criticism of its role, but accuses the Socialists of using the attack to force them out, suggesting that's exactly what the terrorists wanted. "The aim of the attack was not only to cause terror and provoke a brutal massacre, but to remove the PP from power in the elections," said Eduardo Zaplana, the PP parliamentary spokesman, quoting from the PP report. After the attack, he said, "The government kept the public informed at all times...
...first hint of trouble would probably be no more than shadows flitting through the darkness outside one of the nation's nuclear power reactors. Beyond the fencing, black-clad snipers would take aim at sentries atop guard towers ringing the site. The guards tend to doubt they would be safe in their bullet-resistant enclosures. They call such perches iron coffins, which is what they could become if the terrorists used deadly but easily obtainable .50-cal. sniper rifles...
They also aim to show, not tell. Moore is a terrific salesman for his point of view, but the new dockers avoid the omniscient narrator, who conjures up dusty memories of driver-safety films. "Documentaries used to have that should factor," says Dana Adam Shapiro, who co-directed Murderball with Henry Alex Rubin. "Like, you should know about the horrors of Vietnam. But it wasn't entertaining. We wanted to make a movie about these quadriplegics, not a movie about quadriplegia. We wanted it told from their perspective, which is why we shot much of the film from a wheelchair...