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Culture shock is a constant factor in matching contractors to jobs. Martin Kelman, 35, a Briton who until recently headed Dataworkforce's U.S. office in the Dallas suburb of Plano, says he found U.S. business culture "a real buzz," because "in the United States, it doesn't matter if you have the right school tie or who your father was." But one contractor he brought in from Indonesia found the change unsettling. "One day he's riding his bike to work in Jakarta; the next he's in Manhattan," chuckles Kelman. The company nurtures its contractors on the road. Brayshaw...
...Taliban ran. At 9 p.m., said Wakil Mir Agha, a local leader from a suburb near Kabul International Airport, he was on the roof of his house and heard Taliban soldiers saying Qarabagh had fallen. Soon after, he reported, they fled the city, joining some 8,000 Taliban and radical fighters. It was unclear whether the retreat had been ordered or was a result of panic. Said Jawed Hussein, 21, a Pakistani captured by the Alliance: "Everybody was running to save his own skin." Or driving. Abandoning tanks and heavy weapons, they stole an estimated 800 cars for their getaway...
...right. It's a little darker than it should be when you look at it." And in the strange half-light, people react to the same events in opposite ways. Bars show CNN instead of ESPN because patrons want the latest news, but a family doctor in a Chicago suburb cancels her subscription to the New York Times because the relentless coverage of fear and threats was taking a toll on her. Peace Corps applications are up 72% in San Francisco, even as Harvard alums fight to restore ROTC, and 100 times as many Smith College students turn...
...federal government doesn't tell mayors before announcing these alerts, and it doesn't give specific information about what mayors should do. On the other, everybody has something to tell you: McCrory's fire department is getting 30-40 anthrax-related calls a week. "Tuesday night in a suburb outside Charlotte, someone reported a plane dropping white powder over a children's center," says McCrory. The city issued a full alert, closed the roads, and sent in men in contamination suits. Turns out the white powder was from a cement plant next door; a plane happened...
...skinny 25-year-old munching on a Big Mac in a Kuala Lumpur suburb doesn't realize it, but he represents salvation for Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Once a member of the ruling United Malays National Organization (UMNO), Kamaruddin defected to the opposition Islamic Party of Malaysia as a result of Mahathir's treatment of his charismatic deputy, Anwar Ibrahim, three years ago. Joining what appeared to be a rising tide of public sentiment, Kamaruddin and his friends attended numerous street demonstrations and political meetings in support of the Islamic Party, known by its Malay acronym...