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...Find a better post office. You get the most use from Netflix by getting and returning your discs faster. That depends not just on you but on the delivery system: the U.S. Postal Service. I take my Netflix envelopes to one of three local post offices late each afternoon; they get to the nearest Netflix center the next day about 70% of the time. That's good, but not reliable. As one of the largest payers of first-class mail, couldn't Netflix exert a little muscle on the Postal Service - by which I mean the ones near...
...billion LOCAL GOVERNMENT...
...also realized that the concessions are astronomical at McAfee. They have a full array of draft beers, including local favorites like Gordon Biersch and Pyramid. But the minimum for a bottle is $7.25 and $8.00 for a draft...
...amid fears that ongoing battles with Taliban militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan are spilling over into Central Asia - particularly Tajikistan, which shares a porous 800-mile-long (1,300 km-long) border with Afghanistan. Over recent months, Tajik security forces have been involved in an extensive campaign to combat local militants and supposed drug gangs operating in its mountainous borderlands, but there are also rumors of the return of Tajik Taliban fighters who have traded one rugged frontier for another. As if on cue, while the premiers were in discussion, a car bomb blast rocked Dushanbe. No deaths were reported...
...months of Tajik and Uzbek militants, returning to their homeland after fighting alongside Pakistani and Afghan Taliban. Since May, the Tajik government has locked down the country's Rasht Valley, ostensibly as part of an anti-drugs operation, but also, say experts, in a bid to crack down on local Islamist-leaning warlords. In some parts of Central Asia, the ruling autocratic regimes exercise only a frail reach beyond their capitals. "You get outside Dushanbe," says Eric McGlinchey, a Central Asia specialist at George Mason University in Virginia, "and anything goes...