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...Miramshah near the frontier with Afghanistan, following intelligence reports that bin Laden might be holed up nearby. Officially, Pakistan denies that U.S. special forces crossed into its tribal borderlands. Whether American troops are on the ground or not, Washington must depend, at least in part, on Pakistani intelligence to flush out remaining fugitives...
...nearby in either north Waziristan or the Tirah valley. Officially, Pakistan's government, sensitive to popular anti-American sentiment, denies that U.S. special forces crossed into its tribal borderlands. Whether or not U.S. troops are on the ground, Washington must depend, at least in part, on Pakistani intelligence to flush out remaining fugitives. The working deal is this: the American hunters provide electronic surveillance and whopping rewards for information; the ISI supplies the human intel, the spies and informants who actually know who is where...
...example, into the toilet tank," says Swistock. "A heavy item like that displaces a quart or more of water - and that's one less quart of water the toilet needs to refill itself." Once you've mastered water displacement, try another, even more challenging conservation measure: Don't flush every time. "If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down." It's not the most pleasant or appetizing of mantras, but water conservationists love...
...Health care is always a leading concern to voters, so when times are flush, governors and legislators are happy to expand Medicaid with all the extra money in their coffers. It wasn't always this way: when Lyndon Johnson first proposed the concept, Medicaid was designed as limited health coverage for Americans on welfare. At that time, more than a third of Americans didn't have any form of health insurance. Medicaid was a welcome solution. But as health care costs skyrocketed over the last 15 years, Medicaid wasn't providing enough help. Many Americans who weren't on welfare...
...main reason is to get stock prices up," says Steven Kaplan, a finance professor at the University of Chicago. When times were flush, mergers allowed companies to increase earnings and inflate their share prices quickly. But mergers often create strange hybrids - like power companies trying to sell insurance - and anticipated economies of scale often don't materialize. So now, "there is a trend away from conglomerates, there is a distaste for them because there is a lack of clarity and transparency, and they often fail to deliver diversification benefits," says Steve Russell, U.K. strategist at HSBC Investment Bank. Corporations...