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...Sears, like Lands' End, has quietly mastered the art of pleasing what marketers call "multichannel" customers--those who use a combination of stores, catalogs and websites. Sears has used its website effectively not only to sell goods for mail delivery but also to drive traffic into its bricks-and-mortar stores, say, when a shopper at sears.com checks out the features and price of a freezer and then heads to the store to look the thing over and close the deal. More than 30% of Sears' online purchases are picked up at the store, and once there, about one-fifth...
...fleeing Taliban fighters - but no sign of combatants. The lack of enemy fighters emboldened British commander Roger Lane to say the war in Afghanistan was "all but won." The troops later used 100 kg of plastic explosive to blow up the four caves, which contained up to 40,000 mortar shells, rockets and grenades...
Antigovernment rebels took responsibility for the deadliest single incident in the 38-year civil war - the killing of 117 villagers, including 45 children, sheltering in a church at Bojaya. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) said a mortar bomb accidentally hit the church during fighting with right-wing paramilitary soldiers. Government troops later regained control of the area...
...brandished banners in support of the Palestinians. Satellite channels broadcast reports on Palestinian suffering, as well as talk shows on which guests vent their rage. But the Arabs are not only shooting off their mouths. From bases in southern Lebanon, Hizballah and Palestinian guerrillas stepped up rocket and mortar attacks on Israeli targets. A band of Egyptian teenagers even tried to sneak into Israel, saying they wanted to join the battle. Whenever the Israeli-Palestinian dispute erupts in crisis, as in Israel's latest incursion into Palestinian territories after another round of Palestinian suicide bombings, a wave of Arab anger...
CHECHNYA Not Over Yet At least 17 members of the pro-Moscow Chechen police were killed in an ambush in central Grozny. On the previous day six Russian soldiers died and 11 were injured in a mine attack, reportedly in retaliation for Russian mortar strikes on the southern village of Gorgachi, which killed two children and a pregnant woman. Two hours after the Grozny explosion, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared in his State of the Union address that the "military stage" of the conflict in the rebel republic was over...