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...Hambali ran out of time. Last Monday night a fleet of bronze sedans carrying about two dozen Thai Special Branch police forces pulled up near the six-story Boon Yarak apartment building in Ayutthaya. A U.S. official says the Thai authorities were acting on at least two forms of intelligence provided by the CIA. Intelligence officers in the region pinpointed Hambali's location after intercepting a cell-phone call placed to an operative in Indonesia. At 10:30 p.m. on Monday, the Thai forces knocked on Hambali's door and then smashed the lock and stormed inside. A college student...
First came "cool Britannia," Tony Blair's late-'90s attempt to sex up the U.K.'s image. Now Germany is rebranding itself for the British audience. A study by the London branch of the Goethe Institute, which promotes Germany abroad, exposed the U.K.'s lack of interest in the country's people, language and culture. So the Institute launched a publicity campaign, targeted at British students, teachers and cultural bodies, which will fill mailboxes with postcards featuring übermodel Claudia Schiffer and the slogan learn German, and look good. There's a serious side to this, says the Institute...
...fairly narrow goals, such as protecting valuable stands of trees. The logical next step, as Finney sees it, is to implement these measures across hundreds of thousands of acres. It is already clear, he notes, that prescribed burns have the power to modulate the behavior of big fires. One branch of the Hayman fire, for example, stopped at the edge of an area where a large prescribed burn had been conducted the year before, and the Rodeo-Chediski fire, for its part, was forced to detour around prescribed burns on forest lands managed by the White Mountain Apache tribe...
Desperate by now, I went back to where I started, almost, to another branch of the first firm I consulted. Here I met a rep who recommended well-respected funds that he--and Morningstar--liked. We also discussed conservative but decently paying fixed-income possibilities. Strange as it sounded to me by then, he actually believed he should "preserve my clients' assets and make them grow at a reasonable level. Losing principal is the biggest pitfall." I'd finally learned that the return of principal is more important than the return on principal...
...branch of the system covers for the other branch instead of fixing its mistakes,” David Okhotin said. “The saga goes...