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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...make the murders stop, keep the cops, who were overwhelmingly Shi'ite, out. Lieut. Colonel Jeffrey Peterson, the U.S. troop commander for Mekanik, says, "Whenever we would talk to locals about [the violence], they always implicated the national police as starting it. I could never prove it. But the bottom line was--whether it was true or false--the people did not trust the national police." In early October the Americans created what they called an isolation zone, ordering all police out of Mekanik. Before the U.S. cordon went into effect, there had been up to eight murders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking The Other Way | 12/11/2006 | See Source »

...like the Middle East, but U.S. airlines are increasingly looking for a way in. A viciously competitive domestic market is sending some major airlines abroad to find healthier profit margins on international routes--anywhere but in the U.S., where low-cost carriers and high fuel prices are killing their bottom lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Routes To Profit? | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

...written prospectus and small minimum investment of $100. The funds' advisers are rare in the business in that they are paid salaries, not commissions. The funds have attracted $36 million so far, outpacing the $24 million average of other new funds. "It is a good example of our triple bottom line, says Dawn Sweeney, head of AARP Services: "improve member value, drive social change and bring revenue back into the organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: Growing Younger | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

LOUISIANA The state in which 1 in 3 people are obese has always ranked in the bottom two. But there is some progress. This year violent crime is down a healthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The State of Our Health | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

...Chertoff asserts that if this kind of data mining had been in place before Sept. 11, federal authorities might have well known about the connections among the hijackers. Alleged 20th hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui, for example, used the same contact telephone number as some of the Sept. 11 hijackers. "The bottom line, from all I have seen, is that if we don't have this ability, we might as well blindfold our agents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airline "Risk Assessment": Defending the Right to Snoop | 12/8/2006 | See Source »

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