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...From the beginning of its Afghan campaign, the U.S. has relied heavily on electronic surveillance in a country where men on the ground can frequently outwit spies in the sky. The U.S. has apparently been close several times to killing the notorious warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, wanted for sponsoring attacks on foreign troops and their Afghan allies. But last week he sent a gloating videotape to a news station in the Pakistani border city of Peshawar, jauntily recounting the near misses by U.S. troops tracking him. On one occasion, he says, he survived by climbing up a mountain 180 meters from...
...China's new anonymity might enable criminals to outwit even more sophisticated police work. The accused killer in Henan province, Huang Yong, reportedly picked up boys in Internet parlors in his rural county and brought them home before torturing and killing them. According to police, Huang even buried six bodies in his yard without attracting attention; he was caught only when one boy escaped. Police have so far resisted one obvious measure to fight crime: better public relations. They curtailed newspaper reporting on the growing number of missing boys until the killer had been apprehended, and they have ordered newspapers...
There are almost as many ways to play the game. As with the movie, shooting and martial arts are only part of the picture. To outwit the Agents and Sentinels, you will have to brush up on your driving skills, Grand Theft Auto--style. You might also want to learn to hack. At one point in the game, you're faced with a green computer screen, a blinking DOS prompt and no instructions on how to proceed. Perry says he wants players to be staring slack-jawed at the screen--just as Neo was when he received his "knock, knock...
...massage with Merlot? A soak in Sauvignon? A new beauty treatment is derived from the seductive if scientifically iffy idea that the grape's potent antioxidants can outwit the aging of the skin. Vinotherapy, as the process is called, was developed by the French (of course!) at the Caudalie Vinotherapy Spa in Bordeaux, where devotees indulge in body scrubs made from crushed Cabernet grape seeds or soak shoulder-deep in a barrel of spring water and grape extract. In the U.S., Napa Valley's Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa, below, has couples sip wine in a brass tub filled with...
...DIED. ALEXANDRE DE MERODE, 68, head of the International Olympic Committee's medical commission; in Brussels. A pioneer in the fight against performance enhancing drugs, de Merode spent his 35-year career trying to outwit cheating athletes, and was embroiled in several doping controversies. At the 1988 Seoul Olympics, his committee stripped Canadian athlete Ben Johnson of his 100-meter gold medal after the sprinter tested positive for steroids...