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...lilies or tulips, he doesn't just show them on the company's website. He heads to the mall. To be more precise, he gets help peddling his petals from two of the largest malls on the Internet, shopping areas at Yahoo.com and MSN.com that, like their bricks-and-mortar counterparts, put lots of different stores under one (virtual) roof. While teaming up with a mega-portal to help boost business is not new, the terms of the deals have changed, and that's altering the business equation for retailers and the shopping experience for customers...
...most recent online purchase, and a mere 2% said "portal or Internet mall." The majority, 62%, went to the site directly. So if portal shoppers aren't buying, what are they doing? They're absorbing marketing messages that will influence future purchases, both online and at traditional bricks-and-mortar stores, says Lisa Strand, e-commerce director at Nielsen/NetRatings. That's why eyeballs still count...
...appears, however, Baghdad had dispatched its troops on orders with strict rules of engagement. Instead of easily overwhelming the hastily collected defenders the Iraqi advance halted and eventually turned back, just three hours after the operation began. They covered their retreat with renewed mortar fire and drove their trucks, armored vehicles and tanks back over the ridge, re-entering their own lines...
...pocket, a finger poised on the trigger mechanism. TIME's correspondent witnessed the explosion from a ridge-top bunker a short distance away. A flash and thick curls of smoke engulfed the road before the crack of the explosion washed across farmers' fields. Moments later, a Kurdish government mortar battery retorted, dropping a round on the lip of an Ansar bunker within view of the chaotic checkpoint scene...
...Kurdish trenches are hit by mortar and heavy machinegun fire from the Ansar lines on a daily basis. On Monday night, TIME's correspondent had sheltered with a peshmerga frontline unit through a four-hour barrage. But the resort to suicide tactics shifts the boundaries. Some of the soldiers present during the attack at the Zamaqi roadblock claim a suicide bomber struck the Halabja bazaar last year. However, a Kurdish political officer assigned to oversee the Ansar front, Burhan Saeed Sofi from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party (which controls the Kurdish region's eastern half) says that attack...