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...slip into Iraq are a coordinated force, or even how big the threat really is. Before the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, Iraqi officials claimed that as many as 6,000 foreign volunteers had entered Iraq to resist the U.S. invasion, but allied forces encountered only a fraction of that number on the road to Baghdad. An Iraqi intelligence source working with the CIA says the number of foreign militants active inside Iraq is in "the low hundreds," most of them drawn from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, Pakistan and Afghanistan. U.S. military officials in Iraq acknow0ledge that they have...
...rust bucket of a Russian nuclear submarine, was being towed to a navy scrap yard late last month when it sprang a leak and went down in the Barents Sea. Nine sailors lost their lives--a fraction of the 118 who died when another Russian submarine, the Kursk, exploded and sank three years ago. But this latest sub disaster could have more serious consequences. A high-level Russian official tells TIME that K-159 "presents a threat more menacing than that of the Kursk," a state-of-the-art submarine whose reactors were much less likely to leak radioactive material...
...universal information access, isn't everybody, by definition, in the know? What would it mean if the line between the cool kids and the uncool kids collapsed under the awesome pressure of information technology? If the trend spotters keep doing their job, an ever growing fraction of Americans will be well informed as to the proper cocktail to order. (Uh, it is still Campari, right? Right?) Will cool still be cool when everybody knows about it? When you can buy it at the Gap? And read about it in popular newsweekly magazines...
...rust bucket of a Russian nuclear submarine, was being towed to a navy scrap yard late last month when it sprang a leak and went down in the Barents Sea. Nine sailors lost their lives - a fraction of the 118 who died when another Russian submarine, the Kursk, exploded and sank three years ago. But this latest sub disaster could have even more serious consequences. A high-level Russian official tells TIME that it "presents a threat more menacing than that of the Kursk," a state-of-the-art submarine whose reactors were much less likely to leak radioactive material...
Though iPods are still the gold standard for MP3 players, at nearly 6 oz. they can be a chore to jog with. Flash memory players are often smaller, but they can hold only a fraction of the 10-GB iPod's 2,500 song capacity. Enter the Rio Nitrus Mini Jukebox ($299), a 1.5-GB MP3 player with a slim profile that can still hold 400 titles. Nitrus gets 16 hours of battery life--twice the iPod's--and the included Sennheiser earbuds give great sound...