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AFGHANISTAN Karzai's Close Brush With Death President Hamid Karzai narrowly survived an assassination attempt during a visit to Kandahar, the former Taliban stronghold. A man fired two shots into his car from close range. Karzai's American bodyguards immediately returned fire, killing the shooter. The attack was launched hours after a pair of bomb blasts killed at least 15 people in the capital Kabul. Dozens of people were injured by the explosion in the business district close to a market crowded with shoppers. Authorities blamed "Osama and his associates...
...sure, Lauren can talk eloquently about how he built his company slowly, to last. He can talk convincingly about what Ralph Lauren, the brand, has meant to America. But still, in the back of his brain is the question he tried to brush aside: "What do you have left...
...every five people who suffer a heart attack gets severely depressed. While that may seem unsurprising--certainly a brush with mortality, being rushed to the hospital and having to take a bucketful of medications could throw anyone for a loop--there's growing evidence to suggest that something more complicated is going on. Men and women who have clinical depression, for example, are twice as likely to suffer a heart attack later on, while coronary patients who become severely depressed are three times as likely to develop further heart problems or die. Yet doctors often seem reluctant to treat depression...
...first things the Japanese academics examining the phone book did was to start dialing numbers to North Korea's Elite haunts. In most cases, they found the numbers couldn't be dialed from overseas. But even when they got through, hard-nosed operators quickly brush-ed them off every time...
...Gisbert, a Kuala Lumpur-based British expat. Inspired by paper chase clubs he had first seen in action while stationed in Malacca, Gisbert persuaded his colleagues to "hunt" with him, on foot rather than horseback. Gisbert, as the hare, would mark long, meandering trails through the brush with chalk arrows and piles of flour. The hounds or "harriers," would set off soon after, in hopes of "capturing" the hare before he finished the trail. The reward at the end of the run, whether or not the hare was caught, was cold beer for all. The group would start out from...