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...debate now has a natural geography. Washington is on a war footing, unless you call machine-gun squads near the Mall normal. Lower Manhattan has become hallowed ground, like Omaha Beach or Gettysburg. But elsewhere most people say the fear has largely passed or congealed into superstitions. A Chicago mom still won't take her kids to visit Dad in his Sears Tower office. People stay awake when they fly. Some Florida school districts have lifted the ban on cell phones, under pressure from parents who want to be able to reach their kids at any time. We have banned...
...practice. "We were asked to have employers reroute wage-garnishment payments to Supportkids whether we filed those garnishments or not," she says. She recalls her first case in November of last year. "We did nothing for it, and Supportkids took a third of the money," she says. "The mom's name was Mary, and she sent me a handwritten thank-you card...
...merger specialist Kang was ready for a change. So when a representative of George Soros' investment firm asked the Korean-born New Yorker to run Seoul Securities, a foundering brokerage house that Soros had bought, Kang, now 40, jumped. And he has delivered: he transformed Seoul Securities from a mom-and-pop retail shop to a full-service firm with investment-banking and money-management arms. The company has turned a profit in every quarter since his arrival...
...accredited by the largest certification organization, the American Sailing Association (ASA), based in California, has grown 40%, to more than 200. Keelboat-certification enrollment at schools affiliated with its smaller rival, U.S. Sailing, based in Rhode Island, has leaped 200%, to 6,000 students. That boom has turned the mom-and-pop sailing-instruction business into an industry that takes in more than $30 million a year. It's also creating a smart new way of sailing without all the hassles of owning a boat. "Certification has created a major evolution of expectations on the public's part," says...
...China: Devastating floods Asia's Child-Sex Industry Afghanistan: Our Friend's Enemy Malaysia: Taliban-style Laws? Korea: Pyongyang Yellow Pages Japan: The 'Kamikaze Mom...