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...used Skype twice: to be a guest expert on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and to let my mother see her grandson. Both involved a lot of help from tech people and drool. Yes, I find Meredith Vieira that attractive. But I haven't used it since. That's because Skype breaks the century-old social contract of the phone: we pay close attention while we're talking and zone out while...
...rare for a President to give the entire U.S. intelligence community a public dressing-down. Barack Obama just did it twice in a single week. If he seemed annoyed in his first response to the attempted Christmas Day bombing, he was practically seething in his second. "The U.S. government had sufficient information to have uncovered this plot ... but our intelligence community failed to connect those dots," Obama said on Jan. 5, after a 90-minute review with his national-security team...
...cyanide. Prosecutors say that the following day, as a contingent of U.S. soldiers and FBI agents prepared to question her at a nearby police station, Siddiqui grabbed an unsecured M-4 automatic rifle from one of the soldiers and opened fire. She hit no one but was herself shot twice in the abdomen by a U.S. warrant officer...
...Ratzon's portrait tattooed on her upper left arm, his head surrounded by snakes with the legend "Goel Ratzon, my love forever." A similar tattoo on her upper right arm portrayed him with a cobra crowning his head and the legend "My Goel, my love." Her neck was inscribed twice: "To Goel, with love...
...Vietnam's latest debacle involving two senior Australian executives may make investors think twice before getting into business with Vietnam. Tristan Freeman and Daniela Marsilli, the chief financial officer and chief operating officer of Qantas' Vietnamese operation, Jetstar Pacific, have been stranded in Vietnam since authorities prevented them from flying home to their families for Christmas. Earlier in 2009, Vietnam launched an investigation of the high-level executives after the airline, a Vietnamese and Australian partnership, reported a $31 million loss from bad bets on fuel futures, agreements on the future price of oil that committed Jetstar Pacific to paying...