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...sons of affluent Tijuana families--a trigger-happy cadre known as "los narco-juniors." Mexican ex-military and police officers filled out their ranks of assassins and helped train new members. They imported not only guns but also heavy weapons from U.S. arms traffickers (they once threatened to fire rocket-propelled grenades at U.S. drug czar Barry McCaffrey during a border visit) and assembled enough state-of-the-art surveillance equipment to know when even the lowliest dope trafficker is cutting a free-lance deal on his cell phone...
...bunch of lucky calls and bonuses here and there," Welch said of the business world. "This is not rocket science. You have to motivate, meet and clap...
...gone nearly far enough, and with the stocks well up from their lows, the pace will surely slow. Tech earnings will suffer longer; the stocks will lag. I believe, as I said in mid-April, that we've hit bottom. But gradual recovery is what we need, not another rocket ride. If the froth gets much thicker, don't blow it again. Sell something...
...shared the secret of his restaurant karma: a hands-free mobile phone and Tellme, a popular American voice-activated service that responds to defined voice prompts and provides free stock quotes, weather and entertainment guides to 35,000 U.S. cities. The speech recognition technology that Tellme employs isn't rocket science. But it is simple and effective...
...Navy's system has different complications. A missile-killing warship would have to be close to the enemy-rocket launch, sitting in international waters just off the coast of North Korea, for example. But if the rocket blasted off too far inland--from deep inside China, Iran, Iraq or Russia, for example--the Navy interceptor would be unable to catch it. That shortcoming pleases Moscow and Beijing, which would be beyond the ship-based system's reach...