Word: canadians
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...said goodbye to their nail scissors. After 2006 they said goodbye to their hair gel. They got used to having their luggage searched and their bodies frisked. Western intelligence agencies stepped up their efforts to monitor and penetrate terrorist networks. And there were some major successes. In June 2006 Canadian police arrested suspected terrorists who had about 3 tons of ammonium nitrate in their possession. Two months later, British authorities were able to announce the disruption of a plot to blow up multiple transatlantic flights--which would have caused, in the words of the deputy commissioner of London's Metropolitan...
...Iraq; even left-wing governments believe the war there is legal and worth fighting to keep the country from reverting to a safe harbor for the Taliban and al-Qaeda. But amid new demands for peacekeepers in south Lebanon and a worsening situation in Afghanistan - at least 14 Canadian and British soldiers have been killed and dozens more wounded since the beginning of August - NATO countries are unlikely to make further commitments of troops and money, even if that's required to turn Afghanistan around...
DIED. Maynard Ferguson, 78, Canadian-born trumpet virtuoso who lent his dazzling, shrieking high notes to 60 albums and several of his own Big Bands, which reinterpreted pop songs (including the Beatles' Hey Jude) and helped revive the genre; in Ventura, Calif. In the late 1970s Ferguson, who credited yoga with his ability to hit double high Cs, found brief mainstream fame with Gonna Fly Now, his Top 40 version of the theme song from Rocky...
...built in credit-card swiper. The first of these screens was inaugurated on August 7th at the Polo Ralph Lauren flagship store in Manhattan. It is operative and manned by a security guard 24 hours a day, according to Lauren, and purchases are shipped directly to consumers' homes. Canadian company, Brookview Technologies constructed the system from a 67-inch transparent screen made in Germany and British touch technology. "There is no other transparent touch screen in the world that I know of," said James Fuller, President of Brookview Tech. The company's website explains that the images on the screen...
...Diaries' Meg Cabot will publish Avalon High next spring; additional young-adult titles will follow. In January, Simon & Schuster expanded its partnership with San Francisco--based Viz Media, a top publisher that licenses manga from Japanese publishers Shueisha and Shogakukan. Random House just launched its second label, Tanoshimi. And Canadian Harlequin will launch Ginger Blossom, romance story lines in manga, in September...