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...allegedly taking $6 million in kickbacks from a Kuwaiti subcontractor - declined to participate, but with an accord now in place there is growing pressure to sign up. Will the pledge be enforced? We'll see. "We all know this is just a first step," Boeckmann acknowledges. Best-Laid Plans Amid declining productivity and rising unemployment, the E.U. Commission warned member states that plans to become the most competitive knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010 were on course to fail...
...creating would disintegrate in the blast he planned for Pervez Musharraf. If he did, he was wrong. Not only did he and a second car bomber fail to kill Musharraf in their Dec. 25 attempt, but the memory card of Jamil's cell phone, which investigators found intact amid the detritus of the blasts, has led authorities to dozens of suspected collaborators. Many belong to a violent Pakistani extremist group, Jaish-e-Muhammad. Once allied with Musharraf's government, the group is now linked to al-Qaeda, whose leader, Osama bin Laden, called for Musharraf's overthrow in a recent...
...SAID RECENTLY, "FORGOTTEN" MEXICO AMID ITS OBSESSION WITH TERRORISM...
...Emerald Buddha at Wat Phra Kaeo and marvel at Wat Arun, the Temple of Dawn . But for those who know where to look, Bangkok and its environs also offer a selection of weirder wats. Consider Wat Hua Krabu, an unassuming temple in the seaside suburb of Bang Kunthien. Stacked amid the incense and amulets are more than 5,000 buffalo skulls, deposited by Thais in the hope of speeding their favorite beasts of burden to a happy reincarnation. At Wat Khunsamutjeen in nearby Samut Prakan province, monks chant to the sound of lapping surf. Erosion and rising sea levels have...
...once symbolized--and you'll find that American manufacturing hasn't disappeared; it is reinventing itself. As Bessie and many of its fellow titans have marched slowly into bankruptcy, a new breed of manufacturing company has quietly emerged in the Lehigh Valley and in cities across the U.S., even amid one of the worst manufacturing purges in recent memory. More than 2 million of the 2.5 million jobs lost over the past two years were in the manufacturing sector, and many are gone forever. But the U.S. economy is going through a major shift, one that is forcing this sector...