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...purported Sept. 11 conspirator who talked of having "entered the field of aviation." And suspected hijacking ringleader Mohamed Atta may have met the accused on a visit to Spain in July. COINCIDENCE? Six of the eight arrested come from Aleppo, Syria, the city on which Atta wrote his urban-planning thesis. PROBLEM Spain says it won't extradite the suspects to the U.S. if they are tried in military tribunals...
...Russians' occupation was, the chaos that followed their withdrawal in 1989 was worse, especially for women. Afghan warlords brought terror to the urban neighborhoods and villages they laid claim to. Young, undisciplined fighters treated women as plunder; rape became commonplace. Civil war broke out among factions of the victorious anti-Soviet resistance. With the triumph of the Taliban in 1996, conditions were in place for a final degradation of Afghan women...
Will such opportunities persist in a postattack economic slump? Nik Theodore, research director of the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago, warns, "When the economy begins to slow down, the staffing industry feels it first." But the dearth of baby-bust workers (born between 1965 and '76) may help counter the bad news. Besides, says Ann Kelleher, president of Mature Resources, an Omaha, Neb., staffing company, special factors may insulate older temp workers, especially highly skilled ones. "We see companies really valuing the work that experienced older workers bring to the table," she says...
...Russians' occupation was, the chaos that followed their withdrawal in 1989 was worse, especially for women. Afghan warlords brought terror to the urban neighborhoods and villages they laid claim to. Young, undisciplined fighters treated women as plunder; rape became commonplace. Civil war broke out among factions of the victorious anti-Soviet resistance. With the triumph of the Taliban in 1996, conditions were in place for a final degradation of Afghan women...
...Kamen isn't so naive as to underestimate America's long-standing romance with the automobile. ("I love cars too," he says. "Just not when I'm downtown.") And he is well aware that uprooting the vast urban infrastructure that supports cars, from parking garages to bridges and tunnels, won't happen soon. Which is why he has pinned his greatest hopes not on the U.S. but abroad, especially in the developing world. At a meeting with Jobs a year ago, the Apple co-founder proclaimed, in typically hyperbolic fashion, "If enough people see this machine, you won't have...