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Al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, was rumored to be gravely injured or dead just a few months ago. Since then, his organization is believed to have been behind barbaric attacks in Iraq and has even claimed responsibility for a failed rocket assault on a U.S...
Needless to say, now that Knopf has taken over the franchise, Paolini won't have to put his wizard robes back on anytime soon. Knopf is printing 1.3 million copies of Eldest, a book that significantly expands and enriches Paolini's fictional palette, adding new points of view--including that...
The company Yahoo! is buying into, Alibaba, is already a profitable business-to-business e-commerce site. (The company is privately held - it plans to go public next year - and doesn't publicly disclose financial results.) The more direct competitor to eBay, called Taobao (?searching for treasure? in Mandarin) isn...
TIME How are you expanding your footprint these days? K.K. We now have a national franchise with an emphasis in California, Texas, Florida, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia--those high-growth states--and rounded out with the Northwest and large metropolitan areas like New York, New Jersey, Chicago and Denver. The primary...
Ridley's version (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.) retains many of the characters, like shop owner Calvin, who is played by Omar Gooding rather than Ice Cube, a producer of the series. But the stories rely much more on the social-button-pushing aspects of the movie. In the second episode...