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...part, I have my new peers to thank for the change. I’ve never had to defend or even explain myself to any of them. Except for one scary incident when, after going to a movie together, my one-time date told me that he would never “ever” consider marrying someone who did not share his nationality, the issue has never come up. It’s not a taboo subject, but I just don’t find myself thinking about my blackness or, for example, the other person?...
Pilots in the program, as well as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which runs it, claim it has been a big success. Except for an arrest last month of an armed pilot who allegedly arrived at work drunk, there have been no problems like inadvertent discharges or illegal use of weapons, which often occur among new officer groups. But some pilots complain that the TSA has never embraced the idea, providing little follow-up after training and denying them basic intelligence data like the weekly suspicious-incident reports. "The government wants it both ways," says one pilot. "They want...
...longtime Kodak watchers, this optimism smacks of old times: Kodak trumpeted its digital aspirations nine years ago--and failed to deliver, unable to wean itself from traditional film businesses and their 60% margins. Is this just another false start? "Everybody's been skeptical," says Carp, "except we've put the numbers on the board...
...FASTING ARINA, JAPAN This weight-loss resort, tel: (81-26) 267 7608, is located in Nagano, and mountain scenery is all you're likely to feast on. Resort president Takeo Hayashi says visitors "do nothing"?except let their organs get some well-earned rest...
...what else can you say about democracy in Cambodia except that we are now doing a U-turn to a dictatorship?" UNG BUN ANG, spokesman for Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who fled the country following a government ruling that would allow him to be tried for allegedly libeling Prime Minister...