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...comparison with that of the Secretary of Defense. The CIA administers only about 15% to 20% of the annual intelligence budget. The rest is in the hands of the Pentagon, which has long had the final say over where the satellites go to spy and where the eavesdropping ships drop anchor and listen. But just when it makes sense to give the CIA director more power to track the kind of enemy that conventional armies and navies are not trained to detect or fight, the agency often lacks the clout...
Mountain-biking injuries have plummeted since the mid-'90s. About 48,600 people sustained such injuries in 1995, reports the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission. In 2001 the figure was 19,500, a 60% drop. In the meantime, ridership has risen 26%, according to the National Sporting Goods Association...
...with 2000. Industry executives say that number should be multiplied by 5 to 10 in order to approach reality. More-reliable figures come from the airlines: American Airlines says passengers on trans-Pacific flights in June fell 22% compared with June 2002 (as opposed to a less than 1% drop across the Atlantic); meanwhile, Continental's traffic to Asia fell 30% year on year. The news is no better from Europe: the Association of European Airlines reports that one recent week's business to the Far East was 23% below its equivalent...
...earned him banishment. "He desperately wanted to go back and try to effect political change," says Jared Genser, a Harvard classmate who is president of Freedom Now, a legal-advocacy group lobbying for Yang's release. In exile, Yang suffered from depression so severe that he was forced to drop out of school for a semester...
...over 7% last week. Open Road To Privatization The French government dumped a €1.2 billion stake in Renault, reducing its holding in the carmaker to 15%. Lawmakers then waved through a draft bill allowing the state's share in former monopoly France Télécom to drop below 50%. Update One of Turkey's wealthiest families, the Uzans - profiled in time last week - was found guilty of perpetrating a "huge fraud" against Motorola and Nokia. A New York federal judge found the Uzans had "siphoned" hundreds of millions of the two telecom firms' money "into their...