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...ports controversy will soon turn into an even greater battle over U.S. defense contracts going to foreign-owned companies, including-as the Washington Post reported last week-Dubai International Capital, which wants to buy a company that makes components for U.S. tanks and military aircraft. Lawrence Korb, a defense specialist at the Center for American Progress, estimates that foreign companies may receive as much as 20% of Pentagon contracts, sometimes in tandem with U.S. companies and sometimes dealing with sensitive technologies. I asked Korb what would happen if we ended the practice. "Things would be a lot more expensive...
...focusing its energy on trying to stop the big drug traffickers. A Western counternarcotics specialist based in Kabul says he expects to see high-profile arrests in the coming months, in what will be the opening salvo against the drug trade's "command and control." Helmand's beleaguered police will get some relief when approximately 3,300 British troops take over for the much smaller U.S. contingent in Lashkar Gah. The reinforcements can't arrive soon enough. After the fighting on the way to Sangin subsided, about 50 policemen took up posts above a road south of town--the spot...
...Academy. They are balancing hefty copies of Castles of Scotland on their noggins. "Eyes ahead. Now walk!" They're polished. They're poised. They'll get there. Sound like an old-fashioned finishing school? It is, with one twist: the pupils are all men. Image consultant Mather and recruitment specialist Penny Edge tutor men, who range in age from 19 to 50, in modern manners at Britain's first male finishing school, founded in October 2005. "In these days of equality, what's good for women is good for men," says Mather, co-founder of the successful Finishing Academy...
...Arab owners be even more conscious of security, since they wouldn't want their newly bought assets destroyed by terrorists? Several intelligence experts told me last week that Dubai has been our most reliable Arab ally since Sept. 11. Even Richard Clarke, the former Bill Clinton and Bush counterterrorism specialist, who rarely has a kind word for this Administration, said, "The President is right on this one. Dubai has done everything we've asked of them. They tightened their banking system to prevent money laundering after 9/11. They've handed over al-Qaeda suspects...
...boredom, loneliness, and the common practice of separating babies from their mothers” and claimed that “federal Animal Welfare Act violations,...painful and invasive experiments, and an unwillingness to make humane improvements” were rife at the center, according to a press release. Primate Specialist for PETA Debra Durham described the “prevalence of abnormal behavior” at the lab due to the stress caused by these factors as “just stunning.”Research data shows that 90 percent of the primates at the primate lab show instances...