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Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and Bush won the other Peck Presidential award, for service to a president...
...been paying attention. The arrest last week of four U.S. citizens accused of conspiring to join al-Qaeda was the culmination of yearlong cooperation among a clutch of curious neighbors, more than 100 fbi agents and an alert deputy sheriff. Officials have accused Jeffrey Leon Battle, 32; Patrice Lumumba Ford, 31; and Muhammad Ibrahim Bilal, 22, of trying to travel to Afghanistan late last year to support al-Qaeda. (They flew into Hong Kong but apparently lacked the cash and contacts required to pass border controls.) Two other accused men--Ahmed Ibrahim Bilal, 24, and Habis Abdulla al Saoub...
Strategies vary, but the result is to shift more of the direct costs to employees. This year 9% of large employers, including Ford and Sears, announced that they would scale back health benefits for retired workers. Many employees already pay more for family coverage; one small technology firm recently offered a cash bonus to employees for switching to their spouse's plan. Xerox once tried adjusting its health-care allowance so single workers would get more and those with families a bit less. "After three years, we killed it," says Helen Darling, a former benefits manager for Xerox...
...think women will rush to buy barely-there dresses, but because they know that for every edgy trend, there's a modified version that sells. The looks on the runway may be shocking, but the commercial collection retailers buy in the showrooms will be less so. For instance, Tom Ford said his skirts at Gucci will grow a magical 10 centimeters before hitting store shelves. And if designers don't make viable alternatives available themselves, retailers can always find safer versions of the same trends at other houses. The batwing tops seen at Dior, Gucci and Stella McCartney...
Prize winnings: A 2002 Ford Ranger...