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...inside information. It's a low-tech form of corporate espionage that has increased since 1988, when the Supreme Court ruled that once it leaves private property, trash is fair game. Last year Procter & Gamble, whose products include Pantene and Head & Shoulders shampoos, admitted Dumpster diving for information about Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Unilever, makers of Finesse and Helene Curtis. Dumpster diving is also practiced by identity thieves, who seek credit-card information. Fear of Dumpster diving has helped fuel the growing popularity of shredders--even before Enron gave them such high visibility...
...European Union, 65% of the steel is now produced by just five firms, while employment in the industry dropped 33% in the 1990s. Led by giants such as Germany's ThyssenKrupp, the Dutch-Anglo venture Corus and the multinational conglomerate Arcelor, the E.U.'s mills are now among the world's least polluting and most productive. "Should restrictive trade measures be adopted, it still doesn't solve the problems of U.S. integrated producers," says Gordon Moffat of the European Confederation of Iron and Steel Industries...
...custody in France. All three are suspected of links to Djamel Beghal, another Franco-Algerian detained in France and believed to be a key associate of Osama bin Laden. Beghal lived in London and Leicester in the mid-1990s, frequenting extremist mosques. Even suspected shoe-bomber Richard Reid, the Anglo-Jamaican accused of trying to blow up an American Airlines plane, is alleged to have come into Beghal's orbit...
Richard Reid, the 28-year-old Anglo-Jamaican who on Dec. 22 tried to blow up an American Airlines plane by igniting explosives in his sneakers, was ripe for recruitment. He converted to Islam in 1995 while serving time for petty theft. Unlike Moussaoui, though, he was not a committed hard-liner when he arrived at the Brixton Mosque the following year. Over time the amiable, eager-to-learn Reid become more extremist and argumentative. He was not seen for a while, according to mosque chairman Abdul Haqq Baker, and when he returned he wore military fatigues and talked about...
...might face execution, will offend every European instinct. If that's what happens, even short of the execution factor, America can expect its own long drawn-out vengeance on al-Qaeda to be matched by a European public opinion increasingly roused against it. For, contrary to the myth of Anglo-America's unique respect for individual liberties, the continental ethic of human rights is even stronger...