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...When an earthquake shakes up everyone's nerves at the end of Short Cuts, Tom Waits shouts at Tomlin, "This is it, baby! We're goin' out together!" That could have been the tag line for love for the 90s: exuberant togetherness on the fault line of the millennium. And that was immortality, Robert Altman-style. With his death today, he took some of the spirit of cinematic adventure with...
...emitting diodes (GentleWaves), pulsed light (Palomar Medical Technologies' Lux system) and lasers (Fraxel, Vbeam) to smooth out and tighten the skin and soften the appearance of wrinkles. Syneron's eMax uses radio frequencies and light energies and costs about $175,000. According to Shiu-Yik Au, an analyst for Millennium Research Group, the market for aesthetic medical equipment will top $400 million this year, a 30% increase from 2005. He projects it could more than double...
...appear to be the sort of case for which the U.S. offshore detention system was created. The 40-year-old Algerian militant is alleged by counter-terror officials to be a Qaeda-aligned terror kingpin and suspected of involvement in a number of plots around the world, including the "Millennium Bomb" plot aimed at Los Angeles International airport in 2000. Yet, as things stand, Abu Doha looks set to be freed from prison in Britain and deported on immigration violations, after the U.S dropped its bid to extradite him over the LAX plot...
...after a Federal grand jury indicted Doha as a co-conspirator in the LAX plot, based on evidence and an affidavit signed by would-be bomber Ahmed Ressam that Doha had overseen the attempted attack. "[Doha] actually moved Ressam from Afghanistan back to Canada" to plan and execute the Millennium bombing, explains a senior U.S. intelligence official. But after initially sharing his knowledge of terror networks, Ressam ceased cooperating with prosecutors sometime in 2003 - and even after two years of coaxing and cajoling, claims to have "forgotten" the information he'd earlier provided...
...sentence about the fact, 'Oh, and by the way, you should give a client a more comfortable seat, pick up their bags at the airport, compliment them on their ties.'" That's why the authors dismiss old think about office demeanor: "'Mean' to us is so last millennium...