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Their goal now, say the militants interviewed, is broader than simply forcing the U.S. to leave. They want to transform Iraq into what Afghanistan was in the 1980s: a training ground for young jihadists who will form the next wave of recruits for al-Qaeda and like-minded groups. Nearly all the new jihadist groups claim to be receiving inspiration, if not commands, from Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the suspected alQaeda operative who the U.S. believes has masterminded the insurgency's embrace of terrorism. Al-Zarqawi's group kidnapped three Turkish workers last Saturday and threatened to behead them within...
Jackson said that the branch is moving in order to expand service to its customers as well as to transform the branch into a “community hub.” She said ATMs should be operational by early September and that the bank hopes other services will be available by late fall...
...room, reaching our ears at different times. Our brains analyze it all to discern where the sound is coming from. (Sound from behind is duller, because it has to pass through the skin flaps of our ears.) The headphones come with processors that analyze incoming sound tracks and transform them into two-channel tracks. This replicates the behavior of sound coming from five speakers and a subwoofer that would bounce around a room before landing in our ears...
...term, the ground had shifted to the point that it became all but impossible for politicians to propose big new spending programs in the face of so much red ink. "Reagan's policies," said Stanford economist Michael Boskin, "were all designed to do what public policy could do to transform a badly ailing economy into a highly competitive...
...switched residents from daytime electricity rates to the 39% cheaper nighttime rates. Activists caused a temporary power cut at toll booths on the Toulouse-Bayonne autoroute, allowing motorists free passage. It's too early to tell whether public opinion has swayed, but workers hope to unplug government plans to transform France's electric and gas utilities from public agencies into corporations - a step toward partial privatization. The debate is sure to be electrifying. - By Terrence Murray Hard Times For Software Microsoft appealed the E.U. competition regulator's March ruling that the firm abused its dominant position in the PC operating...