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Ever since the sfo announced it was dropping the case on Dec. 14, Blair has been plagued with questions. When it was signed in 1986, the deal with Saudi Arabia - known as the Al-Yamamah contract - was thought to provide a guaranteed stream of revenue for the British aerospace giant and safeguard thousands of jobs in the U.K. An extension of the deal, involving the sale of Eurofighter Typhoon jets, was agreed just last year. For Blair , Britain 's ties with the Saudis are paramount. "My advice was that this investigation would do enormous damage to our relations with Saudi...
...tunic over gray sweat pants and sneakers, J.Z. Knight, 40, sat on a makeshift stage in a sturdy armchair surrounded by a veritable garden of lavender flowers. Her voice, almost preternaturally husky, seemed to take on a gamut of accents from European to Indian as she spouted a relentless stream of imperatives about self-reliance and the god within. "You will receive what you want," she said. "You are masters of your destiny." Every so often she would animatedly cry out to her listeners, "Get it?," to which they would roar back, "Got it!" Many in the audience were weeping...
...them up with her help. Said Penny, 14: "It's been neat. I'll never forget working at night with the lights on." But Leathers is out to impress the adults as much as their children. "They start out as cynics, but when the countdown begins, and the kids stream in, they start to cry," he says. Leathers assures his clients that his playgrounds will last at least 25 years, but the memories are guaranteed for a lifetime...
...with electrodes that record any change in activity. Neuroscientist Nikos Logothetis found that the earliest way stations for visual input in the back of the brain barely budged as the monkeys' consciousness flipped from one state to another. Instead, it was a region that sits further down the information stream and that registers coherent shapes and objects that tracks the monkeys' awareness. Now this doesn't mean that this place on the underside of the brain is the TV screen of consciousness. What it means, according to a theory by Crick and his collaborator Christof Koch, is that consciousness resides...
Aaron Baer, 25, who won a cult following among G.O.P. officials as e-mailer of the party's constant stream of news alerts, is going to Romney. Matt David, 27, a behind-the-scenes document wizard who knew every word Kerry had said and remixed those words for effect, chose McCain. Matt Rhoades, 31, the former Republican National Committee research director and master of the invisibly planted story, is going Romney. Brian Jones, 36, his former boss, went McCain. Most are protégés of Steve (Bullet) Schmidt, 36, the imposing workaholic who ran the 24-hour war room...