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...operations in Saudi Arabia. U.S. intelligence officials told TIME that the CIA is showing the Saudis evidence that al-Qaeda is planning attacks inside the kingdom. High on the list of potential targets are petroleum facilities and oil-pumping stations that, if struck, would disrupt Saudi oil output; the CIA thinks al-Qaeda may also target housing compounds and shopping malls frequented by Westerners. --Reported by Perry Bacon Jr., Massimo Calabresi and Douglas Waller/Washington
Bernakevitch was the hero in Harvard’s 6-3 win over No. 15 Yale, scoring two critical second-period goals to break a 2-2 tie. It was the sophomore’s first career multi-goal game, and the dual tallies equaled his scoring output from all of last season...
...junior forward Hana Peljto and sophomore center Reka Cserny this season. In the Crimson’s 79-70 victory against Northeastern last night, Peljto and Cserny each had double-doubles and both players scored 24 points, combining for more than half of the Crimson’s total output...
...rife with inefficiencies: Life insurance is largely sold not by financial professionals but by brigades of old ladies, often part-timers working door to door?a model that has not changed since the aftermath of World War II. Indeed, the sectors that account for 90% of Japan's economic output achieve labor productivity rates just 63% of those in the U.S. As the McKinsey report bluntly puts it, these sectors are "the source of Japan's ills and the Japanese economy will not rebound until the performance of these companies begins to turn around...
...affluent stasis, but the country is still probably finished as an economic overachiever. "The high-growth story in Japan is over," he says, predicting that a long-run GDP growth rate of 1% per year is probably the best the country can hope for. With far fewer people working, output may stagnate no matter how productive Japan's workforce becomes. All of which means that someday soon in the suburbs of Tokyo, and across the nation, you may have to start parking your car all by yourself...