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...origami-style process that involves repeated twisting and tying. A dry night's sleep depends on such art. The campsite must also be kept as pristine as possible, which, as Pat explains to a shocked group on our first night, necessitates the use of a pile of clear plastic bags sitting next to the roll of toilet paper. Lugging to the raft the tightly sealed steel box in which those bags will accumulate is no one's favorite job. But the cruelest chore of every morning is simply getting dressed: crawling out of a warm sleeping bag, throwing off beanie...
...official, Khan was a gifted techie. He helped bin Laden's network set up incendiary Islamist websites in Pakistan and abroad, sent encrypted messages through the Internet to al-Qaeda cells and helped research other useful information, such as how to use computer models to determine the amount of plastic explosive required to blast through a skyscraper's concrete foundations. Pakistani investigators say Khan used different Internet cafes and relayed coded messages through secure websites that required a numbered password to gain entry. He never used a cell phone and instead made calls to operatives on pay phones...
Gone are those concrete rectangles plowed into the backyard and surrounded with that plastic patio furniture that sticks to your legs. Instead, homeowners are installing pools with underwater speakers, fire pits--even fake lagoons that emit something the pool industry calls Faux Fog. Small wonder the average cost of new pools has leaped past...
Remember too that most of these rebate outfits also try to make money selling their own credit cards, enticing you with a little extra earning power and the chance to shop in actual stores. An extra piece of plastic in your wallet is hardly the way to greater savings. Still, if you can keep your head, these offers can work out to your financial advantage...
Darrell Wood is proud of his cows--and he wants us to know it. As they chomp through the bitterbrush of California's high desert, their ears waggle a plastic ID tag adorned with a tiny American flag. And when steaks from Wood's 1,500 Angus are sold in markets out West, they sport a bold red-white-and-blue label: BORN & RAISED IN THE USA. "American ranchers raise the safest and best-quality cattle in the world," says Wood, a fifth-generation cattleman. "Consumers deserve to know where their meat comes from...