Word: watcher
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...because it would reveal that he was ailing, wounded or disguised. They say they detected labored breathing in the tape--it is rumored that bin Laden suffers from kidney disease--and think he was reading from a script. But he may simply have used audio to make sure no watcher could glean information useful in tracking him down. Skilled at propaganda, bin Laden could have reasons for speaking now other than to signal an attack. "Terror groups don't like to be upstaged," says Brian Jenkins, a counterterrorism expert at the Rand Corp. "Bin Laden is reminding us that with...
...exchange. Trading in its shares was halted Sept. 30 at the request of the company and it later came to light that Yang had raised money by selling nearly 82 million shares last month for a few cents each, dropping his stake to 49%. Lee Jong-suk, a China watcher at Sejong Institute, a Seoul think tank, says Beijing may have been forced to act quickly before Yang's untidy affairs made him an international diplomatic problem. So what happens now? Wang Huizhong, a colleague of Yang's in the Sinuiju project office, insists everything "is still proceeding as planned...
...Unlike Jager, who alienated his top managers so much that they stopped keeping him in the loop, Lafley "wants to hear any bad news--and as a result, he hears far less of it," says Gary Stibel, CEO of the New England Consulting Group and a longtime P&G watcher...
...venturing into the fields and neighboring forests between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. The nocturnal trumpeting of wild elephants foraging for food at a nearby lake helps explain the curfew. But once the danger has passed, the grounds offer rich rewards to nature lovers. The plantation is a bird-watcher's paradise. Ubiquitous wooden signposts display names and illustrations of the various species that are permanent or migratory residents, including the golden oriole (seen only in November), the cattle egret (spotted from January through September) and the black bittern (prevalent July through September). If you hear a gunshot, fear...
...sounds like a weight watcher's dream come true: a simple hormone, long thought to play an obscure function in the pancreas, turns out instead to be a powerful appetite suppressant--the body's way of telling the brain it's time to push the plate away. If a pharmaceutical company could put it in a pill and sell it at the drugstore, you might, just might, never again have to count calories or wrestle with your willpower. Just pop one of these things before a meal, and your stomach says--entirely on its own--"No, thank...