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Jihad leader Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian terrorist and the most wanted man in Iraq, this weekend released a telling window into his organization, Attawhid wal Jihad, or Unity and Jihad. In a slickly produced hour-long video Zarqawi lays bare the milieu of his suicide bombers, their safehouses, their rituals and their targeting guidelines. Given directly to TIME, the video is a bold, menacing statement of the group's intent and capability. The subtext of this disturbing tape is that for the U.S. this is likely to be a long, drawn out fight in Iraq against a committed...
...because we had to rely so much on Guard people. It's tense for anybody in Iraq. But if you're a special-forces person, you're more psychologically prepared than [if] one day you're cleaning teeth, or working in a car garage, or selling stuff at the Wal-Mart, and a week later you're riding in a personnel vehicle down a street in Baghdad waiting for a bomb to go off and take your life away. Now, that's like my problems--an explanation is not a justification. There is no justification for that...
First popularized in Europe as specialized race motorbikes, pocket bikes are being sold as toys in Wal-Mart and Toys "R" Us as well as in motorcycle stores. Most are made in China and cost between $200 and $400, although souped-up versions can run more than $1,000. They are powered by either two-stroke gas engines or electric motors that can be recharged by plugging into a wall socket. To ride them, you have to squat down with your legs only inches from the ground...
...past 18 months, to about $35, it is nowhere near the $60 highs of 2000. Some analysts say fears that higher interest rates will deter home-improvement spending are hurting the stock. Nardelli doesn't think interest rates can derail Home Depot, nor is he looking for radical ideas. Wal-Mart made the risky move into selling groceries when it went through a period of sagging sales in the mid-1990s and built a wildly successful new business. Instead, Nardelli is stretching the company's existing businesses. He is expanding its services to capture retiring baby boomers who prefer...
...abroad, up 42%. At the same time, companies also expanded their U.S. work forces by almost 5.5 million, or 31%. Often, "as firms expand or sell in foreign markets, they have to hire people in the U.S. to coordinate logistics and manage," says Slaughter. One example, he says, is Wal-Mart, which has added nearly 1,500 jobs in Bentonville, Ark., since the mid-1990s to coordinate distribution of goods to new stores in 10 other countries in Latin America, Europe and Asia...