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...reputation for devotion to his learning-disabled students; an 18-year-old described by friends as a "gentle giant," dressed that morning like the universal teenager, in denims and a sloppy jacket; a 22-year-old cricket fan who worked in his family's fish-and-chip shop in Leeds. The fourth was a 19-year-old Jamaican who had become a British citizen, married a British woman and had a young son, a man who seemed just "an ordinary Joe Bloggs to me," in the words of a neighbor. All four were carrying military-style backpacks, but even...
...began dressing in traditional Muslim clothes. Tanweer visited Pakistan several times and last December went to an Islamic school near Lahore along with other young Muslims from Leeds, intending to stay nine months. He returned after three months to work part-time in his father's fish-and-chip shop, allegedly because the discipline was too hard. But he may already have secretly enlisted in the enterprise that came to a bloody climax on July 7. How did the movements of the Leeds threesome go undetected? There are some 570,000 people of Pakistani descent in Britain, so despite efforts...
This marks the third time they have closed up shop in the past eight years—two previous travel bookstores, one in Downtown Boston and another in the Back Bay, have also closed their doors...
...scarcity of opportunities to encounter Aboriginal culture. With indigenous people forming less than 3% of the population, there aren't many to be seen walking about on the streets; and the closest most tourists get to Aboriginal life is at a museum, or a didgeridoo purchased at a souvenir shop. That's why Gunya Titjikala (gunya.com.au) is such a welcome initiative. The country's first Aboriginal resort enables guests to live in a real desert community, absorbing local traditions firsthand...
...ARRESTED. CARY MA, 41, CEO of Moulin Global Eyecare, the world's third largest eyewear producer; on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud; in Hong Kong. Ma transformed the small eyeglasses shop founded by his father?one of four others also arrested?into a global empire that became a model for ambitious Chinese businesses trying to break into the U.S. and Europe. Creditors forced the company into liquidation last month following the unexpected resignation in April of its auditors over financial irregularities and the suspension of trading of its shares. The five have since been released on bail...