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...succeed Gen. Hugh Shelton as the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, a man with the perfect resume to be the third leg of the Bush-Rumsfeld Pentagon triangle: Currently vice chairman. Former head of the Air Force's space command. Former commander of the Pacific Air Forces. And no less importantly (especially in the personal-chemistry Bush Administration), the Kansas City native is by all accounts a pretty likable guy. Marine Gen. Peter Pace, who was also in Crawford with Bush and Rumsfeld for the announcement, will be the new vice...
...receiving similar orders complied. Vladimiroff flew to Rome to discuss the issue. She returned unswayed, and on the night before Chittister's departure for Ireland, Vladimiroff handed her a letter--co-signed by 127 of Mount St. Benedict's 128 active nuns--stating that she would not relay the command. The grounds: Mount St. Benedict is run on a model of "co-responsibility" rather than a "superior-subordinate" model, and prayerful consensus did not support the travel ban. "Silencing is inappropriate. It's patronizing and treats adults as children," Vladimiroff told TIME. "I cannot ask myself to be complicit...
PAMPERING While dog spas are thriving and command $150 for a Day of Beauty (including hot-oil bath), the supply of grooming and health products is booming. There are doggie breath mints, body wipes, perfumes and toothpaste. A new book, Dog Speak, instructs owners in massage...
Anil Kumar studies the two crouching fighters as they circle each other in the small mud arena, the oil and sweat on their taut bodies darkening the waistbands of their bunched shorts. From his corner, Kumar barks a command and one of the men leaps at the other with his spear, its tip tracing the arc of his lunge through the air. The other man, squatting low, raises a pole above his head and crack! parries the blow. Kumar calls out a second time. Again the first fighter attacks, and the second man nimbly checks him. Then suddenly...
...using a handheld cell phone while driving, it gave a boost to new hands-free options for business-minded motorists. Nokia offers an "earbud" headphone with hanging mike ($29.95) and car kits ($119-$199) that let drivers chat hands-free once they've dialed. The Cellport 3000 with Voice Command from Cellport Systems ($249) connects most cell phones to a car's stereo speakers and provides voice-activated phone and e-mail access. Plantronics' boom mike and earbud headphones ($29.95-$64.95) boast superior acoustic seals between your ear and the headphone. By April 2002, Plantronics promises that its Bluetooth M1000...