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...very large buck that is responsibility for the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade last May has stopped, and landed square in the laps of seven CIA managers. The toll: One unnamed senior official fired and six others reprimanded by CIA director George Tenet for their roles. The key finding for the agency: It doesn't have, um, anyformal procedure in place for selecting targets for military use. The details make that painfully clear: Although agents obtained the correct street address for the intended target, a Serbian government supply office, the two-year-old map the agency was using...
...first round, potential contestants who call a toll-free number and answer the three questions correctly are entered into a computerized random drawing. Those chosen to advance to round two, again conducted over the telephone, face a series of five questions...
...When it's up we call [ABC's toll-free] number every day and we try to answer the questions," Kim said. "They call between 12 and 3 to tell you if you've made it to the second round, so Chris stays in the room then...
...sick country in every sense of the word. Its population declined by 900,000 last year, and male life expectancy, around 60, stands at Third World levels. (Female life expectancy is more than 10 years longer.) Alcohol has killed millions; now an AIDS epidemic seems set to take its toll on both genders. Russia is also beset by other systemic diseases, foremost among them corruption. Few of Russia's 50 richest men could publicly explain how they moved from minor officials to billionaires in half a decade. Several have been investigated for crimes ranging from murder to embezzlement...
...characters. I figured I'd cure this by spending $129 more to buy the Data Connectivity Kit and do e-mail off-line, through my laptop. But when I tried to set the thing up, there was nothing in the documents explaining how. Worse, when I called Motorola's toll-free help line, I was assured by two separate reps that the phone could be used only for faxing; e-mail and Web browsing could not be done via a laptop-phone connection! I would have sent the thing back in disgust. Instead, I pulled my reporter's credentials, went...