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...moments, American Jonny Moseley, the 1998 freestyle moguls gold medalist, soared off the end of the jump. Twisting and rotating 720? horizontally in the air, he landed the ostentatious stunt he calls the dinner roll. A crowd of 14,000 in stands perched on the side of a Utah mountain waved flags, clanged cowbells and cheered. Loudly...
After lurking for hours above the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, the Predator drone found its target: a truck surrounded by a group of suspected al-Qaeda terrorists who had been threading their way along precarious mountain roads amid 11,000-ft. peaks. From several miles away, the unmanned surveillance plane, operated by the CIA last Monday, locked in on the gathering. An agent somewhere in the region, viewing a live feed from the Predator's belly-mounted camera, thought the men were wearing Arab--not Afghan--garb, and that the leader was tall. After conferring with U.S. Central Command officials...
...them how to reverse deflation," says a senior Treasury official. "But we'll certainly tell them they need to." The most important--and toughest--message will be that Koizumi must force Japan's insolvent banks to write off more non-performing loans before the nation's estimated $5 trillion mountain of public debt crushes the economy. Says a top Administration official: "There needs to be a sense of hurry...
...some kind of very Olympicesque allegory about overcoming adversity in which evil icicle people chased a small boy with a lamp. Sting sang. Native Americans played flutes. The wave was waved. The entire stadium played plastic flutes and sang a rendition of She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain. And they didn't seem to mind...
...cash is a putrid -0.2%. Holding cash has suddenly become a sure way to lose money. Why, then, has Oracle hoarded $5 billion in cash? How come Cisco--which last week raised its earnings projections--has $7.5 billion stuffed under its mattress? And why has Microsoft piled up a mountain of cash $38.2 billion high? Just how rainy a day is Bill Gates expecting, anyway...