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...acted as if she had merely misplaced her ATM card. Some branches of the Saudi royal family (a clan with 7,000 princes) actively cultivate ties with radical groups to gain political support in their own country, according to a former senior White House aide. Yet in Washington mere mention of a Riyadh connection with the war on terrorism remains a weird taboo. The Administration forced the joint panel to black out 28 straight pages of testimony about Saudi financial support for terrorists...
...routine, mind-numbing computer programming. Anything more rewarding required emigrating. "Until three years ago, the first preference was to go overseas," she says. Nowadays her colleagues are interested only in business trips to the U.S. "People are pretty comfortable with the jobs here and the pay here"--not to mention the cars and houses that once seemed out of reach. Employees in her group earn from $5,200 a year to $36,000 for the most experienced managers...
...changed. But last month, the Chinese government accused him of spying for Taiwan. Yang's detention has been criticized by various international agencies, and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Lorne Craner says Yang's is "one of the particular cases we now mention in all our discussions about political prisoners." Only intense pressure from...
...just gave him the medicine and he took it,” Jane Gu said. “I did get a record from the doctor and I got a pharmacy handout, but the doctor didn’t tell him anything. The pharmacy handout didn’t mention anything about such a serious problem. That’s a very vague kind of handout that really didn’t do enough to alert the travelers what...
...person, Sharkey and Taylor are not nearly as shocking as their book makes them seem. The chapters in the book that TIME can't even mention make the authors blush too when they are asked about them over a lunch. And some of the advice in the book is pretty conservative. They're against breast enhancement and watching too much television, argue virulently for fiber, and warn that using police-issue handcuffs during bondage "can lead to nerve and bone damage, sometimes irreparable." Sharkey can also draw and did all the diagrams in the book, which, as her off-page...