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...wreckage, police found what amounted to a bomb factory. A police source says 33 packets of explosives were uncovered--and one was already tucked inside a backpack. The upshot: Jemaah Islamiah, the Southeast Asian network of militants to which Azahari allegedly belonged, was almost certainly planning new attacks, and Azahari had been training new bombmakers. Last Friday security forces found a bombmaking video at a house they suspect Noordin had recently occupied. Police say the tape contained confessions by the Oct. 1 bombers in which they declared they would go straight to paradise upon their death. Says a senior Indonesian...
...wreckage police found a workshop for manufacturing small bombs suitable for suicide missions. A police source says 33 packets of explosives were discovered-one of which was already packed into a knapsack, while others were at various stages of assembly. The upshot: Azahari, 48, and Nurdin, 33, were almost certainly planning a string of fresh attacks...
...upshot is that older men are running day-care centers, word-processing firms and pet businesses and senior women are operating farming companies, residential-construction firms and plumbing outfits. Ellen Freudenheim, author of Looking Forward: An Optimist's Guide to Retirement, attributes many of the reversals to what she calls gender envy. "Women want the power that the men have, and men want to experience the better interpersonal relationships that females have," says Freudenheim...
...create jobs, provide subsidies, desist from taxing the people. Over time, we have assembled a large state sector expected to deliver the goods. But the ordinary citizen is reluctant to pay for a large state burdened by a wide assembly of public enterprises that chronically lose money. The upshot is a system in constant fiscal difficulty, and disposed to heavy borrowing that mortgages the future...
Silberman argues that the anti-Semitism in the U.S. is merely residual. He examines the past and present opportunities in business, law, academe, journalism, politics and art. Upshot: today's American Jew is about 2½ times as likely to wind up in Who's Who as the population at large...