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...case. "We have unparalleled situational awareness to understand what an enemy is doing," Keane said. "In a sense, we have an unblinking eye over the enemy formation." That near omniscience plus smart weapons, U.S. officers say, would enable the U.S. to take out lots of enemy positions across vast distances. "We want to go to these objectives as near simultaneous as we can," he said. Keane's views are watched closely inside the Pentagon. He is a favorite of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and is slated to become the Army's top officer in four months...
...range of opportunities for older thespians is vast. It includes amateur groups that have no budget, like the Atherton Players in Alhambra, Calif., who perform unmemorized scripts written by their leader, Pat Lane, 77. They put on three or four plays a year for their fellow residents at the Atherton Baptist Home, a retirement community. Lane's one rule is that every member of the troupe--even those with limited mobility--be treated equally. "Whoever comes to rehearsals is guaranteed a part," she says...
...agency USAID requires contracts to go to U.S. groups; but British firms must vie for British aid money with foreign competitors. The stakes, argues chief executive of the British Consultants and Construction Bureau Colin Adams, are not actually that high: "These projects are a steady, long-term grind, without vast profits." Yet he and many others still hope the U.S. will allow "steadfast allies" to subcontract work, as they did in Afghanistan. Corus Sings The Steely Blues When conflict happens in a marriage, the most common reason is money. Last week Corus - the steelmaker forged in 1999 from the merger...
...need to empower our children, says Allen. "We need to rethink what we've told our kids over the years." "Don't take candy from strangers" is good advice. But in the vast majority of non-family abductions, perpetrators don't fit kids' idea of a "stranger" - they're not necessarily scary or creepy...
...Beyond the terrifying sketch-artist renderings of anonymous kidnappers, there is the grim reality of family abductors, who make up the vast majority of kidnapping offenders...