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...group's past acts of sabotage became an embarrassment in the post-9/11 era. Chanh left the movement last year to head the United States International Mission, a nonprofit organization that helps victims of human trafficking. But if South Korea decides to extradite him, his past may land him in a Vietnamese jail...
...Arbil, with three Vienna flights a week scheduled to start sometime this year. That's just the start. A sprawling $200 million airport is being built on the existing grounds and is scheduled to open next year. Its 4.8-km runway will be wide enough to land the new Airbus 380 - or, for that matter, the space shuttle, boasts Zaid Zwain, Kurdistan's director of civil aviation. "Imagine, people used to fear the sound of jets because of the bombing," he says, standing on the vast, still unpaved runway. Indeed, the sensation of not being in Iraq...
...Scientists have discovered a fossil of a 375 million-year-old fish with a reptilian jaw and a swiveling neck that they say is a long-sought missing link between fish and walking land creatures. Disturbingly, they found it in a Red Lobster fried-seafood platter." TINA...
...British Land made Swann the first woman director at the 150-year-old company. It is one of Britain's largest property-investment firms, with holdings such as London's Broadgate offices and 43 Sainsbury's superstores. Swann, CEO of WH Smith, Britain's largest magazine and book retailer, brings valuable retail expertise. She is winning kudos for turning around WH Smith, which was headed for major losses when she took over in late 2003. "Kate Swann, who has the CEO experience that boards want and is a woman, is a very attractive candidate," said Constance Bagley, an expert...
...Windsors, she would have been invisible without them. The lonely youngest daughter of divorced parents, she translated her own pain not into bitterness and withdrawal but into a genuine desire to comfort the suffering of others--people afflicted with AIDS and leprosy and breast cancer, the mutilated victims of land mines. She could have done far worse with her fortune and acquired fame...