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...Even scarier is that this, the largest identity-theft bust to date, is just a drop in the bit bucket. More than 700,000 Americans have their credit hijacked every year. It's one of crime's biggest growth markets. A name, address and Social Security number - which can often be found on the Web - is all anybody needs to apply for a bogus line of credit. Credit companies make $1.3 trillion annually and lose less than 2% of that revenue to fraud, so there's little financial incentive for them to make the application process more secure...
There's a deja vu feel to all this. Is housing headed for the kind of bust that stocks have suffered? The heady growth of recent years is clearly over, and prices may soften over the next few years--both good reasons to take something off the table. But it's a good bet that the rate of household formation (growing) and supply of desirable building lots (shrinking) will underpin the market for years. So if you're not planning to move soon, the home equity you've built should be put to better...
...years even before the Bali atrocity for his involvement in a series of bombings across Indonesia over Christmas 2000 which left 19 dead and scores wounded, made no protest, leaving so quietly that most of the other passengers at the front of the bus didn't notice the bust...
...NOTEBOOK Hong Kong: Terror Bust Milestones...
...drugs for Stinger missiles, the shoulder-launched anti-aircraft weapons used to wipe out Soviet planes and helicopters in Afghanistan in the 1980s. A U.S. indictment of the three suspects claims that the arms were destined for al-Qaeda, and U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft has enthusiastically hailed the bust as a "strike against the terrorism/drug-trafficking nexus...