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...visiting scholar at the Stanford Center For international Development. Visa's U.S. revenue grew a healthy 23% in fiscal year 2007, but its international revenue soared 57% over 2006. And as formerly cash-based economies in South Korea, China and India embrace the new electronic forms of payments - mobile phone-based transactions are garnering the most buzz - Visa's money-making opportunities are enormous...
...Baghdad and Amit R. Paley ’04, a Washington Post Iraq correspondent, can be heard clearly from his satellite phone over the background of a bustling newsroom...
...number one when I was in Iraq is that you get next to the wall because that will minimize your chance [of getting hit by debris]. If you're in the middle of the street, you can get hit from anywhere. I couldn't call my family because my phone stopped working. They thought I died. I was able to call them eight hours later when I made it home. They couldn't believe that I was still alive...
...four others were given training in advanced explosives with both lectures and hands-on practice. The course was done in 45 days. At the end, a handler talked to each of them separately and gave them a phone number to call in Iraq. Ali was given $10,000 in cash, he said, with a handler telling him the money was meant to support his efforts...
...shocked," says Ali, who sat for an interview with TIME on the southern outskirts of Baghdad. "I never dreamed I would hold $10,000 in my hands." The starter money, however, was only a "drop in the sea." Ali says he continues to phone for funds with the contacts he made in Iran and that his group has conducted two successful roadside bomb attacks against American forces operating north of Baghdad...