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During the past decade, the Abu Nidal Organization, splintered by internal feuds, grew quiet. Abu Nidal was said to be seriously ill. In 1998, after proving too onerous a political burden to his host, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, he resurfaced in Egypt. The next year, he moved to Iraq, relying on his fragile alliance with Saddam Hussein...
...From the beginning, the public's infatuation with Diana played like an ill-fated love affair: She made us work hard for a few peeks at candor, and we loved her even more for her unavailability. For all her claims of reticence, and despite her famous blush, Princess Diana was hardly camera-shy. She knew exactly how to work the lens, and over the years learned to make it conform to her many moods: flirtatious, sullen, playful, frustrated. Her face was famously kaleidoscopic - full of life, constantly changing. It was this ever-percolating energy that made her such...
...aviation nor in putting more cars on additional highways. My choice would be the oldest mode of the three: rail. It is not a sentimental or nostalgic choice. The aviation industry, like the vast infrastructure for cars, is dangerously overbuilt. In recent years aviation has sucked regional boosters into ill-conceived drives for more airports and more flights, even short ones--all at immense expense...
...corporations, including General Motors, Bristol-Myers Squibb and British Airways, now release data on their environmental and social performance according to protocols spelled out by the Global Reporting Initiative, a collaboration of nonprofit organizations and companies based in Boston. In the 2001 report by Baxter International, a Deerfield, Ill., medical-products maker, the company detailed how reductions in energy and water use and improved waste disposal and recycling over the past seven years cut costs by $53 million last year. That savings amounted to nearly 10% of its 2001 net income...
...occupations and ethnic backgrounds, these stay-at-home dads, or sahds, as they have been unfortunately dubbed, have become increasingly visible. They have their own online newsletter at AtHomeDad.com They exchange tips through a variety of national and regional networking groups. They even have an annual convention in Glenview, Ill., which this November is expected to draw 100 dads from 23 states...