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...says a senior military official, "are increasing in sophistication." He cites more frequent use of improvised explosive devices as well as standoff weapons like mortars. "They've been getting more and more organized," says Sergeant Joseph Teague of the 101st Airborne, whose platoon patrols the town of Ba'aj, southwest of Mosul. Teague has been ambushed twice in the past two weeks. "In the last two attacks," he says, "they've shot at us from all sides...
...idea that employees who take business (but not necessarily themselves) seriously stand to be happier and more productive. Fun doesn't save people from layoffs. But it does save them from tedium and stress and can spark creativity. The fun workplace is a concept established by CEOs like Southwest Airlines' Herb Kelleher, for whom audiovisual aids were a lighted cigarette and the clinking ice cubes in his drink. Of course, Kelleher wasn't above handling customer baggage either, and Southwest made tons of money...
...kill Lindh "strengthened their case" against Mijailo Mijailovic. First detained two weeks after the Sept. 10 killing, Mijailovic denies involvement in the attack. Big Blow to ETA FRANCE AND SPAIN Police arrested 29 people suspected of links to the Basque terrorist group ETA in northern Spain and five in southwest France. Spanish Interior Minister Angel Acebes described the detentions as a serious blow that weakens ETA's ability to operate...
...including the south of France - tend to be more integrated into families than in the north. So the heat wave there was accordingly less deadly. Nice, Marseilles and Toulouse have preserved what Mantion calls "Latin attitudes," which consider older people valued and active members of society. The southeast and southwest had around 46% higher fatalities in the first three weeks of August compared to last year, versus 102% in Paris - a far more private and anonymous place. For now, though, with funerals still going on, it is easier to focus on the poor performance of the country's leaders than...
...first records are broken in the southwest, where temperatures reach 41C in the Bordeaux region and on the Atlantic coast. AUG. 10 Patrick Pelloux, head of France's emergency physicians' association, announces that some 50 people have died of heat-related illnesses in the Paris region in the past four days. He criticizes the General Directorate for Health for characterizing the deaths as natural. AUG. 12 Pelloux says some 100 people across France have died from the heat. Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, vacationing in Combloux, a village in Haute-Savoie, dismisses criticism of his handling of the crisis...