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...course, even with the help of Kansas City's coolest, the trend watchers sometimes get it wrong. Youth Intelligence picked the WB action series Birds of Prey as a winner last year. (Birds of who? Exactly. It was canceled after a few episodes.) And the game is getting tougher. "Some of the companies we've worked with that used to get hair accessories made in China discovered that they couldn't do it anymore," says Brooks. "By the time a celebrity had worn it, it had appeared in IN STYLE, and then everybody wanted it right now, and then...
...replacing seasoned commanders with freshly arrived officers who don't know the country or the troops they are leading. And it is telling enlisted soldiers that they will be spending a year in Iraq, not the six months they expected. This is likely to hurt recruitment and make it tougher to hang on to troops when they consider re-enlisting. Those moves hurt morale in Vietnam and will probably do the same in Iraq...
...like, a suburban kid." Ever since Williams, 30, and Hugo met in seventh grade at a school for gifted children in Virginia Beach, Va., they have been masking their insecurities beneath the brashness of hip-hop. The key to their success is that while fantasizing about being tougher than leather, they never forgot that they were softer than puppies. "A lot of people get caught up with making music into their identity," says Williams. "But my people--hybrid people--we respond to everything. I love Kool Moe Dee, but I also love America. And I would never let my appreciation...
...also becoming tougher for JI to find safe havens across the region. In 2002, Hambali held a planning meeting in Bangkok at which he issued the order to bomb "soft targets"; now, with the arrest in Thailand of Hambali and two suspected senior lieutenants, Zubair Mohamed and Li-Li, the perception of the country as a place where terrorists can lie low has been shattered. "They're on the run," says a Western diplomat in Bangkok. "The question is what they're capable of given all the obstacles they now face...
...they are still looking for the big bosses. With this in mind, U.S. and Mexican officials have begun applying anti-racketeering laws to coyotes, and the Mexican Congress is expected to pass more draconian laws this year against people smuggling. In a sign that the courts may be getting tougher, a U.S. federal judge recently sentenced convicted coyote kingpin Ruben Patrick Valdes to an unprecedented 27 years in prison...