Word: lasting
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...used to be a covert operation? Well, the spooks are a lot more cordial than in the cold war days. Not only does the CIA website have games for kids, but the agency's also getting into e-tail--a 1996 map of Iraq costs $7. Last month Langley played host to its first-ever gala premiere, for the TV movie In the Company of Spies, where CIA head George Tenet rubbed shoulders with actor Tom Berenger (center, with his wife). Next month the agency's new venture-capital firm, In-Q-It (the Q refers to James Bond...
...politics is local, and some of it is downright familial. Although the turnout for last week's local elections was tiny in places--11% of eligible voters in New York City cast a ballot--each electorate made itself heard in its own special...
...Ireland, around $14,000. In the past several years, between 20% and 60% more U.S. students have been attending undergraduate schools in Canada, England and Ireland. At the University of Toronto, for example, 152 American students began their first year this fall, 56 more than last year...
...would recommend a Canadian education to others. Peter Deitz, 20, a Hastings, N.Y., resident majoring in Canadian history at McGill, allows that he is "very grateful, very content with the choice that I made." In his first two years in Quebec, he improved his French enough to work last summer for an Internet company in Paris...
...three sites are secure and approved by TRUSTe, a nonprofit organization that certifies that websites meet certain privacy standards. iCanBuy takes the extra step of shielding young shoppers from merchants' marketing e-mail. And under a federal law made final last month, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, all sites requesting identifying information from children will soon have to meet strict guidelines. If the website operators intend to post or sell information from a child under 13, they will have to get written or oral parental consent, or use a new kind of digital identification technology...