Word: portly
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Seven years ago, on October 12, 2000, the U.S.S. Cole was attacked in the Yemeni port of Aden, killing 17 American sailors. Two years later, to the day, a pair of suicide bombers killed 202 tourists and Indonesians in Bali. Neither attack would have the fateful consequences of September 11. But, in their own way, the Cole and the Bali attacks were important turning points in radical Islam's war on the West...
...business leaders, especially in smaller enterprises, do not yet grasp the need to be socially responsible. "The public is not informed enough to hold companies accountable," says Guo, the Syntao website manager. But that, too, is starting to change. In June, for example, thousands of residents in the southern port city of Xiamen took to the streets to protest against a planned chemical plant. Authorities put construction on hold. "Such fury wouldn't have even been notable in the West, but it's new for China," says Stephen Frost, director of the nonprofit CSR Asia. "People now have their pick...
...with the United States in 1994. The terms of that agreement remain classified, but the presence of U.S. forces in this corner of the Middle East is hardly a secret. About 1,800 U.S. military personnel, mostly with the Air Force, live on military bases here. And the U.A.E. Port of Jebel Ali, one of the few docks capable of handling a U.S. aircraft carrier, gets more visits from Navy ships than any other port outside the United States. Qatar signed a bilateral defense pact with the United States in 1992. Today, the sprawling al-Udeid airbase there is home...
...most disturbing cases were the ones in which money played no role, in which the impersonator craved nothing so much as our compassion. Sugeil Mejia, a young mother of two, told police two days after the attacks that her husband was a Port Authority police officer - and he was trapped in the pile. He had just called on his cell phone, she said. A police officer raced her down to Ground Zero, and rescue workers put their lives at risk searching for the man in the unstable rubble. Then Mejia vanished. Four months later, she pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment...
...unclear where that balance of toughness and perspective originates. Hermann hints that it comes from a childhood spent watching her parents, both doctors, deal with the carnage of emergency rooms. Hermann grew up in Concarneau, a fishing port in northern Brittany where car crashes were routine on the rough coastal roads and regularly disrupted the family's evenings. "I was often in the corridors of hospitals for emergencies, and it's funny, but I got used to that sort of activity," she recalls. "Maybe it's why I am so comfortable in fashion, which is so quick and aggressive...