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...intelligence services - including those in Europe - that have been cooperating in unprecedented ways. This solidarity is one of the unsung successes of the last four years and a key reason why there has been no second terrorist attack on the scale of 9/11. Countries that may publicly poke a finger in Uncle Sam's eye can still work with him hand-in-glove behind the scenes. France, whose opposition to Washington's Iraq policy requires no précis, hosts a secret joint operations center with the cia in Paris called Alliance Base, and has a relationship with the Agency...
Another time-saving strategy would be pre-testing for iron levels. With the current system, students wait for hours, only to be turned away because their iron is too low. Frustrated and discouraged, many don’t come back. A simple finger prick before the wait would correct this problem and improve turnout...
...BOOK WAS BETTER: There's something about a man getting stuffed into a metal footlocker or having his finger crushed in a vise or getting a shotgunful of snakeshot in the face that you can take when you read about it in a book. When you see it onscreen, in full color, 20 ft. high, it hurts more...
...plane en route to a labor-union congress in Bordeaux, Jean-Louis Borloo leans out of his seat and jabs a finger at a cluster of suburban housing projects below. "The very design of neighborhoods like that was meant to create zones that no one exits and no one enters," barks Borloo, who as France's Employment and Social Cohesion Minister has made revamping the country's blighted banlieues a personal crusade. Borloo insists that demolishing the "invisible but impenetrable walls" separating project residents from suitable housing, functioning public services and jobs is the only way for France to avert...
...line that divides the acceptably humorous from the inappropriately taboo becomes fuzzier as you try to look at it more closely. The fact that we were worried about our safety tells us what we were doing was offensive to some degree, but I can’t put my finger on anything fundamentally wrong with getting a laugh out of cultural differences. The problem seems to arise out of the fact that cultural differences are so closely tied to racial differences. Perhaps the saving grace of our activities is the fact that they had the best intentions—after...