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...sharing it with only a handful of people. That made for good secret-keeping but discouraged critical thinking by the people on the front lines. When an FBI agent in Phoenix, Ariz. noticed two months before the attacks that Middle Eastern men were taking flying lessons in his backyard and alerted headquarters that something ghastly might be in the offing, agents in Washington took no action. And a month later, when a group of agents in Minnesota warned that a French-born Moroccan named Zacarias Moussaoui was in the area illegally and trying to learn how to fly a commercial...
...Smart is set to launch in Beijing, and UTStarcom is selling phones with such fancy extras as full-color screens, built-in MP3 players and digital-camera ports. Still, the perception persists that UTStarcom operates in a gray area--even as Little Smart rolls out in the MII's backyard. "But that's not necessarily a bad thing," says Wu. "Potential competitors are not willing to get into the market." Not everyone is cut out to be a revolutionary. --By Kaiser Kuo/Beijing
...Robyn started us off slowly. She got us a border collie, Hugo, when our son was about 6. She knew that would appeal to me because the border collie is the smartest species on the planet. Hugo could 1) play outfield in our backyard baseball games, 2) do flawless front-door sentry duty, and 3) play psychic weatherman, announcing with a wail every coming thunderstorm...
...Tenet, sources say, recently conceded to the House panel that the CIA should have done more to warn that finding WMD could be a drawn-out process. Tenet got a reprieve last week when an Iraqi scientist who had hidden parts and documents for nuclear-weapons production in his backyard for 12 years came forward. Tenet's usually behind-the-scenes CIA suddenly became very public in trumpeting the importance of the discovery, if only to remind people how hard illicit weapons would be to find. But Tenet's hot zone isn't Baghdad; it's Capitol Hill. He canceled...
...come and go. For more excitement, there's Yang Zhenzhong's 922 Grains of Rice, in which a rooster and a hen peck away at 922 grains of rice while male and female voices tally his and her scores. Best of the lot is Yang Fudong's 13-minute Backyard, Hey, Sun is Rising, following the irresistibly silly antics of four bald men brandishing sabers as they parade through city streets and homes. Yang seems inspired by Mack Sennett, Monty Python and the Beatles in A Hard Day's Night. There are relatively few paintings or drawings on show...