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...afterward. "If I'd known it was going to be like this, I probably wouldn't have come," grumbles Private Shamsuddin, a square-jawed 22-year-old from Faryab who was expecting pay of $250 a month. He is debating returning home to his job as a tractor driver. The Americans are also watching their recruits to see if any are potential sergeants. The pickings are slim; about 70% of the trainees are illiterate...
...sight of headlights along the dirt road at the edge of the camp. It is from there that Israel's tanks last came, killing 17 gunmen who stood sentinel that night, and the tanks will surely come again. Abu al-Fahed stands back as his two comrades question the driver of an old white Renault, in case he is an undercover Israeli. From his accent, they conclude he is Palestinian and let him pass...
...firm United Healthcare as well as select financial services stocks, including fund company Franklin Financial Advisors. He also believes Starbucks will benefit from retirees with time on their hands--he's long decaf. His fund is 50% driven by age-wave considerations, which are the main driver at the Muhlenkamp Fund. Those two funds are one-stop investments for the trend. Other funds guided by shifting demographics include AIM Dent Demographic Trends, Fidelity New Millennium, Morgan Stanley 21st Century Trend, Invesco Leisure and Phoenix-Seneca Strategic Equity Theme funds...
Improvements in infrastructure and automobile technology have helped diminish accident fatalities by nearly half since the 1970s in most E.U. countries (the exceptions being Spain, Greece and Portugal, where the number of cars and drivers significantly increased between 1985 and '95). But social attitudes, driver education and diligent enforcement are key to preventing deaths. After German reunification in 1990, for example, accident mortality exploded in eastern Germany from 1,626 in 1989 to 3,248 in 1991, as drivers on lower-policed roads got access to faster cars from the West. Better safety education, roadway improvement and tougher enforcement helped...
...judge was more inclined to put himself into the driver's shoes than mine, even though I'm the one who's handicapped for life," says Marcelle Berthoud, 61, who has spent three years in hospitals and rehab centers since a drunk driver hit her car head on. The driver - who failed to appear at his trial - saw his initial six-month suspended jail sentence lowered to three on appeal, and the 15-month driving prohibition lifted completely. "Judges figure the driver's guilty conscience is punishment enough, and that the damage to victims is already done," says Berthoud. "Just...