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...still runs it out of his apartment. He figured out people essentially exaggerate on profile answers. He follows a more sensible creed: actions speak louder than words. For example, Susie says she wants a solid, stable man who earns $100,000-plus but keeps clicking on profiles of muscle-bound bad boys. Plenty of Fish makes sure she meets plenty of underemployed weightlifters, and some of the stable ones she ignores. "People don't even realize we do this. They just know they are getting results," said Frind, who compares his strategy to grocery store purchase tracking: diet claim...
...sounded a little too James Bondy that pocket change could be tracking your every move. The Defense Department quickly retracted a report that Canadian coins--like the $2 "Toonie," at left--with tiny radio transmitters had been planted on Canada-bound Pentagon contractors. Then again, it sounded kinda CIA. Here are some spy gadgets that turned out to be real...
...York City--as key to securing energy supplies at a time when China and the rest of Asia are competing for new sources. The Caspian, which is largely unexplored, probably accounts for 7% of the world's oil reserves, and the oil flowing through the new West-bound pipeline still represents a mere 1% of global supply. But ultimately some of the gas from Khazakstan and Turkmenistan's much larger natural-gas fields across the Caspian from Baku could flow through BP's pipelines, turning to the West rather than to Asia. "The pipeline is changing the strategic...
...better job of it than anybody else in Massachusetts.” “She’s extremely knowledgeable about terrorism, and has been working in the field extensively over the past few years,” he said. “She’s bound to be very influential, and raise the level of attention to the level of security measures for Boston and Massachusetts.” Kayyem started her career in the U.S. Justice Department as a trial lawyer, litigating across the country. Before entering law school, she worked as a journalist in South...
...large boats could take Chinese-manufactured goods to markets in Southeast Asia. "Before the Chinese came here, you couldn't find any work," says Ba, a Burmese immigrant, taking a cigarette and Red Bull break from his task hauling sacks of sunflower seeds from a boat onto a truck bound for Bangkok. "Now I can send money back home to my family...