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From the camps, convoys of trucks go up well-maintained roads that seem to lead nowhere. In fact, they end in tiny Afghan villages just across the border, where the trucks dump ammunition and weapons in safe houses. Later, according to U.S. Army officials, small groups of between four and a dozen terrorists from the camps cross the border amid the flow of civilian traffic. Once inside Afghanistan, the Americans say, the terrorists are assisted by abettors who provide money, pass on information about U.S. troop movements and safeguard supplies. Loaded with equipment and intelligence, the al-Qaeda forces then...
PLEADED GUILTY. SAMUEL WAKSAL, 54, Former chief executive of ImClone Systems, to insider-trading charges. Among them: telling his daughter to dump shares of his highflying biotech firm just before news broke that the FDA had rejected one of its cancer drugs. Waksal is trying to spare family members from prosecution. His plea might not help home diva Martha Stewart, also under investigation for improperly selling ImClone shares...
...kids information about condoms. Now, as Congress is weighing President Bush's proposal to boost abstinence funding by 33% to $135 million, those allegiances are shifting. A small but vocal cohort of doctors has gone to the abstention side. "I used to think all we had to do was dump condoms in the schools and be done with it," says Sulak. "But after reviewing the data, I've had to do a 180 on kids...
...downward in an effort to survey the damage wrought by 20 years of intense shoe dependency and I found only two withered stubs masquerading as pinky toes. They looked less like natural appendages and more like unwanted souvenirs from a childhood spent living far too close to a radioactive dump. As we crossed Harvard Yard, I made great pains to shield the two little black sheep of my family of toes from the sight of tourists, so as not to disabuse them of whatever idealized tales they may have heard about the worthiness of Harvard feet...
...housing market has defied the economic slump, so have the stocks of homebuilders, home-renovation stores and mortgage lenders. But is it time to dump these stocks? Fund manager Ron Muhlenkamp says Lowe's, whose stock has risen 42% in the past 12 months, no longer looks like a bargain. Ditto for sub-prime lenders like Countrywide, which may be hit hard by the upturn in mortgage delinquencies, says portfolio manager David Dreman. However, Dreman says, big lenders such as Fannie Mae, which have less exposure to risky credit, should continue to perform well. Homebuilder stocks such as Centex...