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...Widening Grounds In our story on Asia's divorce boom [April 5], we said that in the Philippines, "the grounds for annulment of a marriage have been widened ... to include cases where one partner has a low IQ." In fact, the grounds for annulment are in the process of being widened to include such cases...
...circles in the U.S., and a top FBI official told the 9/11 panel that while the FBI knows "10 times" more about Islamic militants in the U.S. than it did before 9/11, "its knowledge is at about 20 on a scale of 1 to 100." Despite its recent hiring boom, the bureau still lacks sufficient Arabic, Urdu, Farsi and Pashto linguists. In a preliminary report, the commission said the FBI fails to translate "thousands of hours" of audio-surveillance tapes "in a timely manner." When conversations of suspected terrorism-related subjects are translated, the commission concluded, they are "usually...
...question is whether temporary staffing might further delay or dampen the long-awaited boom in permanent, full-time jobs. The overall March payroll numbers in the U.S.--308,000 jobs gained since February--were encouraging, but temporary staffing so far has shown few signs of slowing. This year the industry may even exceed its record-high average daily employment of 2.54 million in 2000, according to a report by the American Staffing Association, to be released next month. "Using these flexible staffing models in certain parts of your business--it makes too much sense not to do it," says Bill...
Licking his wounds all the while, Koolhaas turned increasingly toward Asia, especially China, where explosive growth has created a boom for Western and Japanese architects and where the Beijing authorities have the power to see major projects through to completion. His most important recent commission is a massive new headquarters in Beijing for China Central Television (CCTV). It's the most radically configured large building in years, a torqued trapezoid that looks a bit like a skyscraper attempting a somersault. "The building has been organized as a loop that allows it to connect every component of television making," he says...
...restored Russia's self-confidence after a miserable decade of chaos and humiliation. Yet the buoyant economy is held up by oil and natural-gas prices--which once made the Soviet Union seem like the way of the future, until prices collapsed. Putin has not used the boom to diversify the country's economic base. He claims victory in Chechnya but has only devastated the tiny republic, not pacified it. Hard-line Chechen secessionists are waging a pitiless war of urban terrorism in Moscow and elsewhere. Russia is a much more dangerous place to live now than before Putin came...