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...Ottawa police busted Pierre, but for anyone looking for a job, his existence is still haunting. It's bad enough that folks out of work have to deal with an unemployment rate that is pushing double digits, but now they also have to watch out for a growing wave of fraudsters who are looking to take advantage of their desperation. "The scammers have gotten so much more active since the recession," says Susan Joyce, who runs the work-search site Job-Hunt.org. "There are more of them and they're more sneaky." (See TIME's video on turning blue-collar jobs...
...recent wave of deals, such as Cisco's decision to buy Tandberg, Xerox's plan to acquire Affiliated Computer Services, Dell's pending purchase of Perot Systems and Adobe Systems Inc.'s acquisition of Omniture have given analysts and investment bankers optimism that a nearly two-year drought in M&A activity is finally over, with tech leading the way out. (See the 10 biggest tech failures of the decade...
Formed in 1979 as Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's personal militia, the IRGC acquired a reputation for suicidal human-wave attacks in the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88. After Khomeini's death in 1989, the government of then President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani sought to channel the guards' fervor into reconstruction projects, allowing them to dip into the coffers of massive religious and charitable foundations known as bonyads; in time, the guards came to control the foundations themselves...
...districts won by George W. Bush and McCain in the past two elections. President Obama's party could lose 40 seats next November, according to political expert Charlie Cook, if Democrats fail to pass health-care reform and polls continue their downward spiral. "The kinds of conditions that create wave elections are the kinds of conditions we're seeing right now," he says. "Kratovil is in bad shape - as bad as an incumbent...
...days after the deadly quake struck Indonesia, the first wave of international rescue teams trickled into Padang, lending their expertise to the unfolding search effort. The first 72 hours after a disaster are critical because it's rare to find survivors after that point, and so Swiss Rescue, dressed in their signature orange jumpsuits, fanned out across town shortly after they landed. By the end of their first foray, the Swiss dogs had located five bodies at the STA Prayoga college and another corpse at the upscale Ambacang Hotel. No survivors were found. But Michele Mercier of Swiss Rescue says...