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Since the firefight, the U.S. has conducted its operations in Pakistan with more discretion; at the airstrip in Jacobabad, U.S. aircraft now land only at night, without the aid of runway lights. American servicemen on motorcycles race up the strip to guide the gunships in. That has added another hazard to the difficult job of locating bin Laden and the Taliban leadership and going for their throats. British intelligence believes the bombing campaign has flushed bin Laden out of his hiding places, providing opportunities for prying eyes to fix his location and sell the information to the U.S. The forces...
...also becomes involved with Angellica Bianca, a highly sought-after prostitute who falls prey to the greatest occupational hazard of her profession—love. Danielle Perry, the professional actress who plays Angellica, delivers a performance that is forceful but a bit too strained to mesh with the rest of the cast...
Indeed, last winter, as if on cue, twice as many students as in normal years came to counselors to talk about symptoms of depression and anxiety. Shortly before graduation last spring, a student committed suicide and another attempted it. Christine Hazard, who supervises the district's psychologists, notes that the American Psychological Association's website www.apa.org is distributing trauma information for schools and parents. "They need to have an awareness of the cycle," she says. "There are hard times ahead...
...joined the Army Reserves on a lark two years ago for what it could offer - money and adventure - and going off to war offers a whole lot of both. Six months (or more) of free housing, free food, foreign pay and hazard pay, and if that doesn't cut it, AOL Time Warner, corporate parent of this writer, has even promised to make up any difference in my income, profit targets be damned...
...fixed annuity, you will merely have financed someone else's retirement--a fact that can scare off customers. "People tend to worry about being losers," says Craig Copeland, a senior researcher at the Employee Benefit Research Institute. "And they don't want to run that risk." Inflation is another hazard: a modest 3% rate can cut the purchasing power of fixed-annuity payments 45% in 20 years...