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...Jobs, an increasingly popular course in which students are taught business and financial English vocabulary and are given help improving their résumés and job-interviewing skills - in English. "These are students who've wanted to improve their English as part of many things they'll need in their careers," says Alain Nothern, the polyglot director of Berlitz's Opera center. "The focus is English, but it's a wider tool kit for the business world...
...group, named Movember, uses mustaches to raise money for prostate and testicular cancer research. The other group, Mustaches for Kids, targets children's charities and classrooms in need. The groups have assembled quite the follicle force: more than 200,000 men worldwide between the two groups are expected to participate this year. (See pictures of world-class mustaches...
...saying, "THIS BUILDING IS BEING WATCHED," above a sketch of a set of human eyes. "Obviously, I'm nervous," Detroit's mayor, Dave Bing, said in an interview earlier this week, when asked about the possibility that homes here may become targets for arsonists as Halloween approached. "But we need to be observant, and I think our community has gotten engaged...
...Putin enjoys the largest support base in Russia, with his political party, United Russia, controlling 315 of the 450 seats in the Duma. Medvedev's manifesto implied that the party's super-majority would eventually need to be broken up and its control of the bureaucratic machinery dissolved. This prospect, though seemingly impossible, provided opposition leaders with a rallying cry heading into elections on Oct. 11 to choose representatives in 76 of the country's 83 regional governments...
Since the late 19th century, when Mullah Powindah - the first religiously inspired fighter from the Mehsud tribe - harried British troops, South Waziristan has troubled modern armies. Pakistan's ongoing wave of vicious suicide attacks has brutally demonstrated the need to eliminate the militants who are based here. But the fighting is only going to get tougher. And when the army does manage to clear the area, as it expects to do within three months, holding on to the territory may prove even harder...