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Foxcom Wireless: This Israeli firm wanted a $3 million contract in 2002 to install cell-phone antennas in the House of Representatives...
...warning for trespassing. The officer lost sight of the individual and checked the area with negative results. Dec. 23: 4:00 p.m.—An officer was dispatched to the Botanic Gardens to take a report of suspicious activity. The officer reported that an individual received a harassing phone call from a delivery person who had made a delivery earlier in the day. Dec. 24: 7:45 p.m.—An officer was dispatched to the Palace Road Lot to a report of a suspicious individual in the area who was dropping off trash...
...live in an age that's gushing with information and dizzying possibilities. You can almost feel your brain cells crackling to keep up with the choices?trivial and profound?that confront us at every turn: picking a cell-phone plan or an on-demand movie, selecting the best mix of investments in a 401(k) or the right health plan or just knowing which eggs to buy at the supermarket. (Cage free? Organic? Omega-3 enriched?) Surely there has never been a greater need to stay alert and informed, to act shrewdly and remain focused...
...Bush Administration seems apoplectic over the revelations in November about the CIA's secret network of terrorist-interrogation prisons and the disclosure in the New York Times last month that the President authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to eavesdrop on the phone calls of some Americans without a warrant. The latter report was also in State of War, a book by Times reporter James Risen, who drew scathing condemnation from CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise Dyck last week. She charged that Risen "demonstrates an unfathomable and sad disregard for U.S. national security and those who take life-threatening risks...
...bigger the cuts you have to make. While eliminating a daily latte will do a bit of good, you'll do better to focus on the dramatic. Do you really need that third car, for example? What if you cut back to basic cable or a bare-bones cell-phone plan, or (if you can't do that) got rid of your landline entirely? Perhaps this summer you could vacation at home instead of spending $2,000 for a week at the beach, or trade two weeks for a seven-day getaway...