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...been arrested and is being interrogated, informed Jamil in which car Musharraf?who uses several decoy limousines?was riding. U.S. and Pakistani investigators say they believe that insiders within the President's guard were also in on a failed Dec. 14 hit, allowing would-be killers to plant five explosive charges under a bridge that blew up just after Musharraf crossed it. Jaish-e-Muhammad is also suspected in that near miss. Under a new order, police officers assigned to the President's motorcade are prohibited from carrying cell phones while on duty for fear they will use them...
...Avlimil: The pill contains various plant leaves and roots and is touted as the female Viagra, but experts question its effectiveness...
Ultimately, even the most ambitious overhaul will not be enough to keep some types of manufacturing in the U.S. When the semiconductor industry moved to a different type of fabrication standard, Agere Systems found itself with 6,000 employees in the Lehigh Valley and an obsolete plant. Over the past three years, the $2 billion company has shifted its manufacturing to Florida and Singapore and reduced its head count in the valley to 2,500. Although Agere has made a commitment to keep its design and testing operations in the area, recently bringing 600 of those jobs to Allentown...
...will re-open contract bids early this year. And so far 2004 doesn't seem terribly bright, either. A Paris magistrate is probing allegations that a consortium headed by Kellogg Brown & Root and French oil engineer Technip paid out $180 million in illegal commissions to build a natural-gas plant in Nigeria during the late 1990s, when Halliburton was headed by U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney. Technip officials have already been questioned over the deal, with authorities now weighing whether Cheney is open to charges of misusing corporate assets. With President Bush up for re-election in November, Cheney must...
...child - alone, abandoned, unbelieved - pursued in the dark by a murderer? This atmospheric thriller, shot almost entirely at night, tautens the suspense like rough hands around a little boy?s neck. Driscoll was a Disney star (?Song of the South,? ?Treasure Island?) who somehow knew the way to plant fear and grit on a winsome face. He makes ?The Window? one of the most modest and satisfying Woolrich adaptations. Driscoll earned a special Oscar for his acting that year, but with puberty his value to Hollywood waned. He later said, ?I was carried on a velvet pillow and dumped into...