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...fate of up to 20,000 civilians trapped in Mingora, Swat's main town, as the army and the Taliban continue to battle each other street by street. In recent days, the army has claimed a flurry of successes: recapturing key intersections in Mingora, retaking Pakistan's only ski resort at Malam Jabba (which was being used by the Taliban as a training camp and logistics base) and clearing the former militant stronghold of Matta. Militants are now reportedly retreating from Mingora to Kabal. The army has made a push toward Kabal, but it says it is facing "stiff resistance...
...resources. With less oil to tap, Dubai has used low taxes, easy money and cheap Asian labor to transform itself into one of the region's most dynamic economies. The city state developed a kind of signature swagger, expressed most gaudily in the gargantuan real estate projects - an indoor ski slope, man-made islands shaped like palm fronds, the world's tallest building - that have turned a sandy sliver on the Gulf into one of the world's fastest-growing cities. (See 10 things to do in Dubai...
...simply trying to escape the harsh realities of job hunting. "After weeks upon weeks of searching job boards for that next great gig, it is nice to just take off and forget about everything for a few days," says Erik Moser, 26, who in March went on a weeklong ski trip in Colorado after getting laid off in January from his public-relations job in Chicago. (See how to negotiate a better severance package...
...matter where you go, it's hard to forget about the uncertainty waiting for you back home. Maciejowski says she thought about her impending job search from time to time in Mexico, and Moser spent his ski trip checking his e-mail repeatedly for job leads and missives from recruiters...
...that a time-share unit he purchased in Colorado in 1997 for less than $40,000 is now worth more than $125,000 in the resale market. He emphasizes that an appreciation of three times the purchase price is the exception, not the norm. Still, it must make his ski vacations even more enjoyable...