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...that the boss has the tools to get at them, he wants your weekends, your secret self-doubts and--to the extent that you still possess one after trying to fake your way through the tests--your soul. First there's the pre-employment drug test, now routine at more than 80% of large companies--and not just for the person who will be piloting the executive jet or loading plutonium rods into the reactor. Winn-Dixie tests the people who stack Triscuit boxes; Wal-Mart tests its people greeters. What a preference for weed over Bud as a Saturday...
...leaders use every imaginable child enticement: colorful Jesus dolls, cheery songs and mountains of sugar. The Pleasant Gap session starts with a round of cookies. At another club nearby, kids who answer scriptural questions get pelted with candy fired out of a spring-loaded catapult. Children get $1 in fake money for coming and $2 for bringing a friend. Every few months, they can redeem the "money" for--guess what?--more candy...
Consider also that in the past 70 years, there have been 11 stock bubbles and that every one of the ensuing busts included a fake-out rally of at least 30% and lasted at least two years before fully washing out, says Barton Biggs, chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley. "This kind of bounce is what you expect," he adds. You also expect it won't last. The pullback, when it comes, will be severe if accompanied by news that suggests the economy won't rebound this year...
...wasn't the most auspicious coming-out party. The 29-year-old mystery man who tried to slip into Japan on a fake Dominican Republic passport last week turned out to be none other than the eldest son of North Korea's Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. Outside of North Korea, no one has seen much of Kim Jong Nam or even knows much about him, so his surprising arrival caused quite a stir. But for a man whose family and homeland provoke considerable gossip, speculation and fear, he came, he said, for the most prosaic of reasons: he wanted...
...moratorium on missile tests, signaling hope for renewed talks to thaw relations between the two Koreas. But just as the rest of the world was beginning to move beyond its conception of North Korea as a wacky, dysfunctional regime, along comes the son of the leader, using a fake passport to go sightseeing. Memo to the world: there is nothing normal about the Kims...