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...Tennessee native, teaches family and child studies at Seattle Central Community College and does consulting work. They have an 11-year-old daughter at home and a 22-year-old daughter who is on her own. With a 12-year-old Mercury Sable, a three-year-old Toyota pickup truck, a mortgage on a two-bedroom home, and a trip to the movies their idea of an exciting night out, the couple is solidly Middle America...
...entirely different assignment overseas. (What language and what posting, he would not say.) The agency yanked him out to join the first U.S. team going into Afghanistan. That was typical for a CIA paramilitary officer, who at a moment's notice may be thrown into what John calls a pickup team. John's team included four CIA officers fluent in Farsi or Dari who for years had been sneaking into Afghanistan, recruiting spies for the agency. Their mission now was to hook up with those contacts, collect intelligence for the impending U.S. aerial attack and hunt for bin Laden. Along...
...Hodges signed a bill authorizing new plates such as “Choose Life” and “NASCAR.” Whereas one can today advertise Dale Earnhardt’s number “3” on the back of one’s pickup, the “Choose Life” plate still languishes in the courts due to a lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood...
...neither are there many signs that there's a bubble ready to burst. December's new record in housing starts, for example, was nicely matched by the new record in new-home sales - If you build it, they will buy - and even if an economic pickup starts to reduce housing's relative attractiveness, there's no reason why modest economic growth and improved consumer mood can't help sustain housing's strength...
...headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., and he invited both Akers and his young assistant to come by the next day to sit in on a staff meeting. That morning Palmisano was shocked to see Walton, one of the richest men in America, pull up to the hotel in his battered pickup truck and drive the two IBM suits over to his company's bare-bones headquarters. As Walton's top lieutenants spoke, the chairman took copious notes. Then, after about 90 minutes, Walton abruptly excused himself, telling all assembled that he had to go check out what was going...