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...thought they were just garden-variety alcoholics. In fact, the FM crack staff also get their kicks from Boggle. Boggle, for the unconverted amongst you, is a surprisingly addictive word-search game where one hunts forwards, backwards, up, down and diagonally in a grid of lettered cubes. Though some use a 4-by-4 grid, FM favors the deluxe 5-by-5 model for, as the box reads, “those BOGGLE lovers who can’t stop connecting letters to spell words and collect more points.” True! In the space of three minutes...
...agencies did not understand that the Ramzi Yousef cell was part of a wider, regional network; they believed he had gone to the Philippines for this one operation. As a result, no serious attempt was made to unravel the front companies and detect the militants buttressing the al-Qaeda grid in Asia, one already well entrenched...
...Island in British Columbia you see little but forested hills, a myriad of islands and the blue waters of the narrow channel that runs from Seattle to the Alaska Panhandle. As the plane drops over a ridge, a floating hut appears, anchored in the channel and nestled in a grid of net-covered pens. It all looks innocuous enough--no smoking chimneys, no visible plumes of discharge, no growling of chainsaws, not even a road...
...Lieut. Rimantas Rudnickas, a Lithuanian member of the BaltNet team. That's probably an understatement. Last month, the Russian daily Vremya Novostei described the network as the "Pentagon's eye," implying that BaltNet would be used for espionage. Though the radar system isn't hooked up to NATO's grid yet, it could be very soon. Another reason for admitting the Balts to NATO is financial: Western weapons manufacturers win a few more clients as the new members upgrade their systems to NATO standards. Last week Lithuania signed an agreement to buy a Stinger anti-aircraft missile system from...
...make a go of "special economic zones" such as Shinuiju, North Korea needs to massive foreign investment to rebuild its electrical grid and other key infrastructure. The country has never been self-sufficient in food and needs an industrial economy to make fertilizer to boost agricultural yield and to finance food imports to make up the shortfall. But the disappearance of foreign subsidies following the collapse of the Soviet Union saw a rapid de-industrialization - until the late 1960s, it had been ahead of South Korea economically. North Korea is now dependent on international food aid and donations of fertilizer...