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...surfing time. If you are after an hourly position, consider SnagAJob, a leading site. If you're a grad, check out NACElink, a project between the National Association of Colleges and Employers and the DirectEmployers Association, which allows employers to post jobs specifically for new grads as well as gather resumes. (The site will tell you if your school is one of more than 100 participating...
...Thaksin said last week that Selamat and his colleagues were planning the bombings to coincide with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, when the heads of state, including U.S. President George W. Bush, were supposed to gather in Thailand. But the plan was aborted, police say, following the May 16 arrest in Bangkok of the cell's suspected chief planner, Singaporean Arifin bin Ali, who also goes by the alias John Wong Ah Hung. Arifin, it is now known, was one of the accomplices who entered southern Thailand with Mas Selamat in December...
...which co-produces Big Brother and broadcasts to more than 40 African countries, the number of Africans with satellite TV is growing by around 10% a year. Currently, M-Net has more than 1.3 million subscribers, 80% of whom live in South Africa. Those lucky few, and those who gather in bars and clubs to catch the latest broadcasts, are discovering a shared love of soap operas, soccer and especially African versions of reality-television shows such as Big Brother and Idols. "For the first time they're getting just African images, African people, African heroes, African music," says Carl...
...Soviet Union softheaded and naive. Its final report helped launch the Reagan-era defense buildup of the 1980s. Rumsfeld also chaired a bipartisan commission in 1998 set up by Congress to assess the pace of rogue states' missile efforts, which concluded that the CIA wouldn't be able to gather intelligence quickly enough to meet the unseen threats posed by Iran, Iraq and North Korea. That dire prediction--reinforced by a North Korean missile launch a month later--turbocharged the nation's push to build a $100 billion missile shield, now under construction...
...Karachi, a port city of 14 million on the Pakistani coast, where the Pab mountain range and the Sindh Desert gather into a brick-and dust-hued urban sprawl before tumbling into the Arabian Sea, is the battlefield in which an assassin like M.R. thrives. In Karachi you have ethnic feuds: gangs of Indian migrants versus the Pathans, Baluchis and Sindhis; you have extremists from rival Sunni and Shi'ite sects battling each other (lately, radical Sunnis are gunning down Shi'ite doctors and lawyers at random); and, of course, there are the radical Islamic groups that shelter al-Qaeda...