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Supermarkets It all began with a Piggly Wiggly in Memphis, Tenn., in 1916. Clarence Saunders conceived and patented the idea of customers' walking though aisles of goods instead of asking a clerk behind the counter for everything. From there it was a straight leap to Costco...
Abbas and his security chief, Mohammed Dahlan, complain that Israel's assassination of Abu Shanab has forced them to shelve their plans for disarming the militants. Sharon's officials counter that the Authority was not doing anything anyway, leaving Israel no choice but to take on Hamas. "The Palestinian announcement to freeze all measures against Hamas and Islamic Jihad is ludicrous," said an Israeli intelligence officer, "since there is no activity to freeze." In the Israeli view, the militants had just been using the cease-fire to rest and rearm. According to a senior military official, Hamas has spent...
Like snowboarders or surfers, says Else, climbers see themselves as part of a counter-culture and dislike being dictated to. To spread his message of "leave no trace," he mingles with the climbers as much as possible and plays host to a coffee each Sunday morning at Camp 4. Hardest to educate are the growing legions of boulderers, many of whom started climbing in gyms and regard the sport as a social activity, not a wilderness experience. Bouldering is cheap, requiring no ropes or expensive equipment, and it attracts younger climbers, who hang out in groups watching each other...
Charlton Heston probably won't like him either. In The Terminator Schwarzenegger goes into a gun store and picks out a "12gauge auto loader, a .45 long slide, a phase plasma rifle and an Uzi 9 mm." (Then he kills the guy behind the counter.) But as Schwarzenegger began to think of himself as a potential political candidate, he became sensitive on the gun issue, telling one interviewer, "I'm for gun control. I'm a peace-loving...
...making a mistake by ignoring the Afghan drug smugglers. Taking action against them would hurt the terrorists, they argue, since both use the same underground pipeline to move cash, guns and fugitives across borders. "I'm positive that the Taliban are heavily involved in drug trafficking," says Wais Yasini, counter-narcotics adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai. "How else do you account for the source of their money?" This year, after a bumper crop of opium poppies, say U.N. officials, Afghanistan became the world's largest heroin producer, with an estimated $1.2 billion in profits...