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Magnetically induced fluctuations in electric current are powerful enough that telegraph operators used to shut off their batteries during periods of high electromagnetic activity and use the induced power alone, Kohl said...
...addition, Iraqi intelligence documents uncovered last April by reporters for the Toronto Star and London’s Sunday Telegraph confirm that an al Qaeda envoy visited Baghdad in March 1998. The papers were found in the bombed-out headquarters of the Mukhabarat, Saddam’s intelligence service. Using Liquid Paper, the Iraqis had tried to cover up all references in the documents to bin Laden; but by applying dried fluid journalists were able to reveal his name in three separate places...
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...more bold, Vajpayee has drafted a moderate Hindu leader to come up with a compromise to one of the longest-running flash points in Indian politics?the decades-old dispute over whether a Hindu temple should be built at a site in Ayodhya where a mosque once stood. The Telegraph newspaper in Calcutta ran the front-page headline hard as diamond, soft as flowers over a picture of a bare-chested Vajpayee depicted as Ram, a Hindu god. One of Vajpayee's detractors on the Hindu right admits, "It is accepted by one and all that Vajpayee is a total...
...Union's bread and butter, last year accounting for 80% of the division's revenues, which in turn make up some 40% of First Data's. "It's a sleeping giant," Gold says of her company, "in the sense that many people still think of us as an old telegraph company and don't really recognize how connected we are to the populations of the world." Appointed president in May 2002, Gold, a Montreal native, is working to update the company's image, which was one of her specialties when she ran Avon Products' North America division. Gold for several...