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Your Notebook item "Bordering on Nukes" [Nov. 22] reported on al-Qaeda's possible plans to smuggle nuclear material into the U.S. from Mexico. Not to worry. We'll take them out at the Rio Grande with one of those billion-dollar antimissile defense rockets recently installed in Alaska. They can't seem to hit many test targets, but surely one rocket could hit a terrorist driving a pickup across the border. Couldn...
...winning bid? Don't get mad--get a snipe program. Sniping is slang for last-second bidding; an estimated 5% of eBay auctions end that way. At Web-based services such as eSnipe, PowerSnipe and Bidnapper, simply enter the maximum amount you are prepared to pay for an item, and the site takes care of the bidding, saving you time and improving your odds of victory. eSnipe offers a 14-day free trial; after that, you pay only a 1% commission on your item if your bid wins. Officially, eBay frowns on the practice. Unofficially, the company tolerates sniping...
...that is, at least for now, the only new item he’ll be attaching to his curriculum vitae. Murphy, named Schutt Sports Division I-AA national coach of the year by American Football Magazine yesterday, officially announced that he will return to the Harvard sidelines next season, removing himself from consideration for Indiana’s vacant post within hours of receiving the award...
...emerging regional conflicts, such as those in southern Philippines and southern Thailand. So long as such conflicts persist, with the perception that Muslims are suffering persecution, existing and new radical groups will find it easy to recruit members. For the governments of Southeast Asia, there is no agenda item so important as finding a healing balm for long-festering sores in the region. If that is not done, the threat of terrorism in Southeast Asia?directed at local and Western targets?will continue to darken the next four years as it has the past three...
...Setting the Record Straight Golf Courses ? In the "Asia's Best" issue [Nov. 22], our item on the most spectacular golf course, the Gulmarg Golf Club in Kashmir, was mistakenly accompanied by a photograph of a different site, the Royal Springs Golf Course, also in Kashmir...