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Missed Signals Of the 16 selected for the operation, says Qasab, three ran away. The rest returned to Muridke, where for one month they were given swimming lessons and "acquainted with the environment experienced by a fisherman on a sea." (The fishpond on the Muridke campus, the size and shape of two Olympic-size pools placed at a right angle to each other, doubles as a swimming pool, a student told TIME.) While he was in Muridke, Qasab and his teammates attended lectures on the Indian intelligence agencies and watched videos highlighting atrocities committed against Muslims in India...
...Despite their small size, lack of public support and relative invisibility over the past 10 years, there has been an upsurge in dissident activity in recent months. Only last week, MI5 - the United Kingdom's intelligence service - raised the security threat posed by dissident republicans to "severe," meaning an attack was regarded as highly likely. This followed a spate of planned attacks which were intercepted by police, including a car bomb left in a County Down town last month. An earlier MI5 report in January suggested that dissidents may broaden their terror campaigns and attempt attacks on large-scale events...
...widow of the self-proclaimed "Emperor of the Universe"--whose 1961 hit song "Mother-in-Law" provided the name for the music lounge the couple would later establish as a New Orleans institution--Antoinette thought it her duty to keep Ernie's memory alive with the life-size likeness she kept at the establishment. The mannequin's hands were removable so that she could take them for periodic manicures, which Ernie often had while alive...
...inched across the Hudson River, Orman explained how much she admires President Obama. She likes the $787 billion stimulus package, although the size of the debt the government is taking on "scares me to death." When asked whether people suggest that she run for President someday, Orman said, "All the time." In fact, just a few months ago, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin invited her to lunch...
...kidney function, which was 48% when Smolens first saw him last summer, has fallen to between 35% and 40%. And there are now outward, obvious signs of Pat's illness: he is lethargic, his eyes are puffy, and his lower legs and ankles are swollen to twice their normal size...