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...text message on my cell phone came just as I was standing in my Shanghai apartment, surrounded by packing boxes and bubble wrap. Preparing to leave for Southeast Asia after more than six years in China, I was feeling nostalgic. China is not an easy place to be a journalist - our phones are often tapped, our sources sometimes harassed - but the economic developments that have transformed this country bring with them an infectious optimism. The lives of people in China, I reflected, really are getting better. The polite packer helping direct traffic in our apartment confided to my husband that...
...burglary; he picked houses with no one home and took just what he could use or sell. He was apparently good at this and had been doing it for quite some time, until one night when there happened to be someone sitting quietly in the next room. A phone call brought the full force of the city police department down on Charles. Remarkably athletic, he ran - though the backyards and over fences. Then he turned a corner around a brick building and a police cruiser spotted him. As he ran along the wall the cop in the car tried...
...distributor, and told him he could make Coke's machines more profitable. Similarly, in early 2005, Stuart Farrell, retail development manager for mobile operator Vodafone UK, and Ralf Pearson, project manager at UTL, a logistics company that works with Vodafone, were discussing ways to improve distribution of prepaid mobile phones - which make up 60% of the U.K. market - when they noticed a candy machine in a tube station. Farrell joked about selling mobiles from vending machines, "and we both laughed." But Pearson wasn't laughing when he called Farrell a week later. Research suggested that the idea wasn...
...that they will eventually win the freedom to practice their faith as they choose. Brother Chow (not his real name) is one. He is every inch the model of the modern Chinese Christian, a preacher who doubles as a businessman. Despite his pressed jeans, polo shirt and fancy mobile phone, he professes to believe in a deep, ancient faith, one that he says has carried many a Christian through persecution. "Why don't I think it will be a problem? Because as time goes on, the government will get to know the Christian spirit and realize that God exists...
Rauf's networks haven't yet been fully mapped. For instance, investigators say his phone records show a number of calls to contacts in Germany. Who were they? He made numerous phone calls to South Africa. What were they about? Several of his 23 suspected co-conspirators being held in Britain are said to have attended Koranic study sessions run by a hard-line Islamic group known as Tablighi Jamaat (the name roughly means "missionary group"). Did they know Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer--who took part in July 2005's London subway bombings and are believed to have...