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...someone interested in quietly leading a terrorist's life, the rainy Indonesian hamlet of Cijeruk is a nice place to settle down. Nestled among lush, green paddies and swaying banana trees, an hour's drive outside the chaotic capital city of Jakarta, Cijeruk consists of a single two-lane road lined by a row of well-kept cottages. It's a good spot to hide from the authorities, if you have reason to be on the run--which may be how Omar al-Faruq, a 31-year-old drifter from Kuwait, ended up living there, in a concrete house that...
...quarter of all U.S. trade with Canada comes across this four-lane bridge--6,000 trucks a day, one every 12 to 15 seconds, laden with lumber, steel, semiconductors, machinery, furniture, chemicals, produce, livestock and Canadian-made auto components for 41 GM, Ford and Chrysler assembly lines within a day's drive of Detroit. The task of policing the traffic is complicated by the area's large Middle Eastern population. Some customs officials say privately that if Ahmed Ressam--the al-Qaeda explosives courier arrested in Port Angeles, Wash., in 1999--had crossed the border at Windsor-Detroit, he would...
...change has been so swift and so pervasive that no simple explanation is possible. Maybe we didn't understand all the ramifications when we jumped on the low-fat bandwagon. We also failed to factor in suburban sprawl and six-lane expressways, school cafeterias and fast-food chains, movie theaters and television, advertisers and food processors. "We live in a toxic environment," says Kelly Brownell, director of the Yale University Center for Eating and Weight Disorders. "Physical activities have been engineered out of day-to-day life, and the food environment grows worse by the day. We took Joe Camel...
...MARTHA LANE FOX Website Survivor...
...founder of lastminute.com a travel website popular in Europe, Lane Fox, 29, saw her firm's stock tumble from $36 a share in 2000 to about $1 a share after 9/11. But lastminute.com recently acquired three other travel sites, and analysts expect the company to turn a profit within a year. From January through mid-August, its stock was up 222%, at $7.29, making the company one of the two best performing ADRs this year...