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...shield to protect the U.S. against missile attacks from terrorists or rogue states like North Korea are moving full speed ahead. But budget concerns may force a sharp cutback in tests to make sure that the system works. The Pentagon plan originally called for 20 tests by 2009 to prove that a new fleet of interceptor rockets could find and destroy missiles fired toward the U.S. But a revised testing scheme to be delivered to Congress this summer--and outlined in budget documents circulating on Capitol Hill--cuts back that schedule to only nine test shots. That comes in spite...
...that even the thickest brown sauce can't mask. And who really enjoys camel hump, which tastes just as you'd expect a blubbery lump to taste? But flavor isn't what really matters to many of the diners tucking into China's wildlife menagerie. "Businessmen come here to prove their wealth," says George Ng, a Shanghai-based restaurateur who specialized in cobra and other wild animals until last month, when local authorities declared all such fare illegal. "By spending lots of money on game, they can close the deal with business partners who are impressed with their expensive tastes...
...eyes that caught Sedigh Barmak's attention. The 40-year-old director of Osama, one of two Cannes entries about Afghanistan, needed the right girl to play his lead. Barmak was seeking someone with whom Afghans could identify, someone who would make his audience "feel confident about themselves, to prove to them that they are human again." He combed Kabul's schools and orphanages in vain. Then came a chance street encounter. A young girl in a tattered salwar kameez approached him, begging for money. "Her eyes," says Barmak, "were like an explosion of light." Marina Golbahari had never acted...
...words would prove prophetic, as the crowd on the evening of May 15 far exceeded the numbers the police had expected...
...privileged few - who get paid a lot anyway - and another for everyone else." Although boardroom pay has been rising for years, British legislation introduced last year requires public companies to provide remuneration details for annual approval by shareholders. The votes are not binding, but the investors' disapproval can prove embarrassing. Three tough stock- market years, plunging pensions and job cuts everywhere have sharpened attitudes toward corporate excesses, even in the traditionally passive British shareholder culture. One Barclays bank investor made news by telling chief executive Matthew Barrett at the recent shareholder meeting that with a pay package of $2.6 million...