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...Indonesia, unlike its neighbors, seems to be going easy on suspected terrorist organizations. Abubakar continues to live his normal life, teaching at the same school where Fathur studied in the 1980s. Last week, Indonesian police called the white-bearded cleric to Jakarta for questioning. After two days of what his lawyer described as "gentle" interrogation, Abubakar was allowed to return home. He denies he preaches terrorism and says he has no links with al-Qaeda, although he told reporters that he "praises the struggle of Osama bin Laden ... in fighting the arrogance of the terrorist United States." His lawyers...
...Treo works well enough, given the current slow data transmission speeds of Asian cellular networks. The monochrome screen isn't vivid, but Treo's display will improve when a color screen version becomes available in late summer. Where the device really shines is as a phone. All the normal functions such as caller ID and the ability to automatically capture incoming numbers are there. The Treo also solves a common mobile phone irritant. You can look up a number during a call, a function absent from conventional mobiles. Dialing is a snap. Just type in the first few letters...
...study published in an October issue of Science, Stickgold had a group of people with normal memory function and a group of amnesiacs, who have damage to their hippocampi, play Tetris over a period of days...
...Maybe it's all for the best, though. While at least one set of our parents would have been so proud of our Cabinet-level positions, we've heard horror stories about previously normal people who went to Washington and returned hollow shells of their former selves. Apparently, we're not a nation of Mr. Smiths. More like a nation of Dan Rostenkowskis. We've heard about shedding all irony and sarcasm and adopting that unflattering "I'm a public servant, I'm here to serve" pseudo-sincerity. And yes, we (well, one of us anyway) have also heard about...
...bandwagon. In economics, half the game is expectations, and fueling thoughts of a recession will only lead to a self-fulfilling chain of events. The U.S. economy has been running on overwrought expectations for years now; it is only natural for it to slow down to a more stable, normal rate of growth. Confidence plays too large a part in the operation of our economy for you to partake in sabotaging it with negative cover stories. DANIEL HOLT Buffalo...