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...September 1990, Nicholas P. Orenstein ’05 went on a run-of-the-mill hunting trip with his dad. Clad in camouflage gear, he took his self-described .410-gauge “little kid gun” to southern Texas for a perfect male bonding experience and came back with a prize. While other seven-year-olds won prizes for shooting water guns into bull’s-eyes at amusement parks, Orenstein’s game and prize were unique. As he matter-of-factly puts it: “I shot the largest turkey...
...cries of frustration from men tired of cramming their pants pockets with gear--keys, Palm pilots, cell phones, iPods--have been heard by the world of fashion. "Manbags," handbags for men by designers like Montblanc, Louis Vuitton, Fendi and Marc Jacobs, are being embraced by some men as not only fashionable but practical. "Stuffing pockets ruins the lines of your pants and jackets," says celebrity stylist and TV host Robert Verdi, who uses manbags. In the recent past, manbags have met with ridicule: Jerry was teased in an episode of Seinfeld for carrying one. The latest resurgence is being greeted...
...those points are accumulating. HP has shuttered nine assembly plants, cut 12,500 jobs and "rationalized" its product offerings, reducing them to 65,000 from 85,000. Result: $650 million in savings since the merger, which helped HP offset losses in its divisions that make PCs and enterprise-computing gear. "I'm keeping my shares," says Ben Rosen, Compaq's former chairman and a large shareholder. "HP is going to get so lean that earnings surprises will be on the upside...
...visited Iraqi Kurdistan to investigate Ansar al-Islam, a terrorist group that has been linked to al-Qaeda and that has its base in caves on the border between Iraq and Iran. (The Americans didn't hide their presence; they drove black Grand Cherokee SUVs with communications gear on the roof, not exactly common in Kurdistan.) The U.S. teams promised the Kurds that they would be back, and they have kept their word. U.S. officials tell TIME that within the past few weeks the CIA has opened two stations in Iraqi Kurdistan, one in Salahaddin, the principal town controlled...
...cost the already cash-strapped airline industry billions of dollars, but defense officials believe last Thursday's botched missile strike on an Israeli airliner will raise pressure for the installation of sophisticated electronic protection gear on civilian planes. It's a problem the Pentagon has been grappling with for some time: Three years ago, the Defense Department told Congress the biggest threat to its cargo planes were shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles like the ones fired in Mombassa. Three months ago, on August 27, the Pentagon awarded a $23 million contract to outfit four Air Force C-17 cargo...