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...costs as much as $1 billion a year, up from $500 million in 1993. "International fraud is certainly an area where we are putting a lot more effort," says Tom Brady, the assistant postal inspector in charge of the Southwest division in Fort Worth, Texas. In May, Brady helped launch the Business Mailing Industry Task Force, an alliance between merchants and government agencies...
...pulled international aircraft back to Australia and helped 110,000 stranded Ansett passengers fly for little or nothing. The goodwill was repaid: domestic earnings jumped nearly 60% this year. Qantas this month will issue more than $400 million in new stock to finance expansion of its fleet and launch a new leisure airline...
...Woodrow, a Baptist minister and parent of two students at Aspen Elementary School, challenged the school's plan to teach yoga this fall on the grounds that instruction in the ancient practice of breathing and stretching introduces religion into the classroom and thus is unconstitutional. School officials planned to launch a program called Yoga Ed, already used in public schools in Los Angeles, Seattle and Columbus, Ohio, in hopes that it would help children focus. But Woodrow is worried the curriculum also encourages teachers to discuss such practices as transcendental meditation. He cites a 1979 New Jersey case in which...
...expert on terrorism and author of a recent book on al-Qaeda, "is the only place in the world where radicals tied to al-Qaeda aren't being hunted down." Adds a Western intelligence source in Jakarta: "The country's like an aircraft carrier from which terrorists can safely launch attacks throughout the region...
...years ago by three officers from the Nanjing Military Region which is tasked with attacking Taiwan, and bears a stamp reading "internal military distribution." The authors critique U.S. actions in Yugoslavia and Africa and draw disturbing lessons. For one thing, they write, the U.S. wouldn't have dared launch its long-distance strikes against Serbia if Belgrade had possessed "the ability to take the war into the enemy's territory"?as China can do with missiles that can hit U.S. bases in Japan. And in Somalia, where a warlord's ragtag militia killed 18 soldiers in 1993, "The American people...