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...program is being run much like a college alumni operation. Pentagon officials tell TIME that a database is being set up to keep track of the foreign military students after they return. Websites and e-mail networks are being constructed to feed them U.S. policy papers. And the Pentagon hopes to organize get-togethers at which alumni meet top U.S. officials such as the secretaries of Defense or State in countries where they are traveling. The cultivating has to be done carefully. Some foreign officers have been ostracized by their militaries for pushing the U.S. line too hard at home...
...Portugal, the BioRegional Development Group - the independent British environmental organization that started up BedZED - and the global conservation organization wwf are working with a developer to create a "one-planet living" ecotourism project south of Lisbon. Using 100% renewable energy and creating a transport network designed to virtually eliminate private cars, the Mata de Sesimbra development will combine a 4,800-hectare cork-forest restoration project with a 500-hectare tourism development. Based on their experiences with BedZED, BioRegional and wwf will be incorporating similar innovative ecological elements into the Portuguese project. They don't plan to stop at Europe...
...than twice that of the U.S. Privacy issues notwithstanding, with all that data government will, ostensibly, be able to better deal with congestion and plan new roads. Companies could eventually cash in too, says Michael R. Nelson, director of Internet technology and strategy at IBM. With this sort of network, insurers could spot high-risk drivers (and raise their rates), and hotels and restaurants could pipe ads into cars when they're nearby. Says Nelson: "There's real money to be made providing services to all those drivers in all those cars...
...that the insurgency in southern Thailand was threatening to spill over into neighboring Malaysia, potentially including terror attacks in Malaysian cities. But TIME has now learned that the men were in the country to collect a cache of arms hidden by Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.), the al-Qaeda-linked militant network widely blamed for the Oct. 2002 Bali bombings. The connection raises its own set of concerns. In particular, analysts say, ties between Thailand and a wider Muslim militancy might signal a new escalation of violence in the south, where more than 600 people have died since the insurgency began...
...revelation that the militants were seeking to pick up arms left behind by Jemaah Islamiah is "consistent with what we know from depositions of arrested J.I. members," says Sidney Jones of the International Crisis Group, who has studied the network intensively. "They were running arms out of southern Thailand, through Malaysia and into Indonesia in 2000 in cooperation with the Thai [insurgents]." But Jones cautions that these past links don't necessarily mean that J.I. is forging new bonds with the Thai separatists. "It's possible, of course," she says, "but we need more information before we can make...