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...Agassi and Sampras play doubles: it's nimble, apparently effortless, playful work. The adventures of said Bert, who has a wife and easily waked baby, aren't too perilous. In one chapter (a concept the book cleverly introduces to younger readers), he puts on a shirt, falls into a truck and is taken to Scotland. But Bert's doings are witty and sweet and endlessly rereadable...
...Qaeda fighters had accepted the cease-fire, the area took the appearance of an archeological dig. Across one ridge 20 mujahidin fighters scratched at the ground with sticks looking for fragments of U.S. bombs, which they loaded into a huge cooking pot and carried to a pickup truck. One fighter handed me a rubber jug with a strap. "Al Qaeda," he said with a nod. Arabs drink water too. Another fighter with pale green eyes carried a backpack that he had taken from a cave. It contained a stick of Mum Cool Blue roll-on deodorant. He wouldn...
...troubling ways. The largest group is a ring of 22 Arab men who submitted false IDs and background information and paid bribes to obtain permits to transport hazardous materials. Law enforcement's fear: that they were part of an al-Qaeda plot to turn a chlorine or liquid-gas truck into a bomb on wheels capable of killing tens of thousands. The men turned out not to be terrorist linked. But with Osama bin Laden vowing to use weapons of mass destruction in the U.S. and claiming he has sleeper cells in place, it's hard to argue that...
...against all odds, the pursuit of loyalty--among corporate executives, employees and customers--is making a comeback. In industries as varied as car rentals, plastics and truck manufacturing, smart companies are finding ways to inculcate worker loyalty and cut the high cost of recruiting and training new hires. Those companies are also finding it more important to please existing customers at a time when new ones are harder to find. "The revival of patriotism and rediscovery of community can be the foundation for rekindling commitment to the workplace," adds David Stum, president of Aon Consulting's Loyalty Institute. "Workers like...
FACE UP TO BAD NEWS. Just as International Truck keeps its unions informed about its finances in good times and bad, Cisco Systems has held firmly, amid the tech recession, to its policy of revealing all product bugs on a public Web page as soon as a problem is reported. In contrast, companies such as Microsoft have been criticized for keeping glitches a secret. Cisco's bug database and online message board help programmers and customers avoid massive problems and share fixes. Says Reichheld, who has studied Cisco's approach: "Loyalty is impossible without trust. And trust is impossible without...