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...intended for only the most senior officials. It typically might include a highly classified briefing book from the State Department's Intelligence and Research Bureau, analyzing developments around the world. (In this case the mystery visitor left the briefing book behind.) The pouch could also have contained the daily digest of National Security Agency intercepts gathered by ultrasecret satellites and listening devices. These often bear the special code-word classification UMBRA, a category beyond TOP SECRET, reserved for the most sensitive electronic intelligence. Most riveting would have been pages of NSA intercepts dealing with Iraq. Typically, the NSA targets...
...teams were expected to digest several hundred pages of reading and give 20-minute presentations the next...
What is the role of a general-interest newsmagazine in such an environment? Obviously, it's changed a lot in 75 years. We no longer try to do a recap or digest of last week's news, since we assume our readers are familiar with most of the headlines. Instead, we try to put events into context, anticipate trends, add new insights and facts, tell the behind-the-scene tales and explore the questions others forgot...
...Reader's Digest has returned to the tried and true. "We don't publish things because we think they are a good idea," says Gardner. "We publish them because our customers tell us it is." Last year research showed that customers would buy a book called Foods That Harm Foods That Heal. They did--2.2 million copies were sold worldwide. It is also targeting new areas, such as young families. The company says it expects to turn the corner in 1999, given the long lead times in the business...