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monster.com More than 800,000 U.S. job listings, aimed at everyone from the hourly wage earner to the senior executive. A free My Monster account helps you cover all the bases and keep close tabs on your progress. Save time by creating a personalized Job Hunter to sift through the site's listings...
wetfeet.com Articles cover everything from how to ace an interview to how to sift efficiently through that pile of resumes. The site's partner, TrueCareers, runs the job board and provides guidance for job seekers; a personal job-search account offers a place to store job leads, interview schedules and other notes...
...again. This year's eligible nominees - a record 39 groups and 117 individuals put forward by eligible electors, such as past laureates and members of national legislatures - included the Red Cross, Rudolph Giuliani and, yes, President Bush. Shortly after the Feb. 1 deadline for submissions, the members met to sift through the nominations. By the end of this first session, only about two dozen candidates were still in play. They cut more names in April, and by the third meeting, in June, five or six contenders remained. Favorites often emerge by September, but the winner is never nailed down until...
...fire fights to capture dusty caches of arms. "It's not a stretch to say they're putting their bodies on the line," says McDonnell. "It's simply the price of doing business in Afghanistan." From each hard-won haul, only a few items are usable. Soldiers have to sift through the duds, carefully X-raying weapons like mortars to identify ones worth salvaging. Funding from the U.S. Office of Military Cooperation is coming in waves: $6 million has already been spent, but a further $70 million has yet to be approved. The timeline is short, McDonnell says...
...congressional inquiry into pre-9/11 intelligence lapses continues, lawmakers are clear about one thing: There's a whole lot of information to sift through, and not a whole lot of time to sift. A joint Senate-House panel headed by Bob Graham, chairman of the Senate intelligence committee and House intelligence chair Porter Goss, both of Florida, is meant to provide lawmakers with a better roadmap of the American intelligence community. And while investigators want to know what's well paved, they're more interested in identifying the potholes and dead ends - and figuring out how to fix them...