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...Azahari acquired his explosives skills at al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan in the mid-1990s. He then returned home to Malaysia, police say, to set up JI cells. Azahari's technical prowess has made him invaluable: he wrote a 50-page bombmaking manual, a copy of which Indonesian police seized in a suspected bomber's house in Solo last December. In one of the chapters, Azahari recommends that potassium chloride be used with TNT to enhance the intensity of the blast, a characteristic of the main Bali bomb. Another chapter shows how to use a cell phone...
...Learn to use your stick shift. Cars with manual transmission generally get better gas mileage than their automatic peers, but only if drivers know what they're doing. Driving fast in a low gear uses up huge amounts...
...fill your tank at the hottest point in the day. Cooler temperatures keep the gas at its densest state, which means you essentially get "more" gas for your money. Follow gas-grade instructions. Most cars today run perfectly well on regular unleaded gas. Unless your owner's manual specifically demands an upgrade for your car, go with the least expensive grade of gas. It won't make any difference to the car in the long...
...absent than others, often for legitimate reasons - for starters, women. Absenteeism is "the only indicator where females perform worse" than males, says Andrea Ichino, an economics professor at the European University in Florence, citing women's health issues and family commitments as possible reasons. And statistics reveal that manual workers are more likely to be absent from work than their white-collar counterparts, thanks to injurious working conditions and lack of economic incentives. Unfortunately, some strategies to verify illness have made the absenteeism issue more opaque. In Belgium, citizens who want to take time off sick present employers with...
...should have taken up the flute. My parents never had to tell me to practice and endured with grace my first spasmodic renditions of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” and “Irish Jig #2.” To me, my beginning Yamaha manual seemed like a stepping stone to the moment when I would play principal horn in a sweeping Tchaikovsky ballet or symphony...