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...spontaneous. "It may have begun that way," says a senior Pentagon official, "but as these attacks grow more numerous, you get the sense that there's someone pulling the strings at a higher level." There is little conclusive evidence, however, and senior members of the armed forces inside Iraq tend to see things differently. Major Joffery Watson, an intelligence officer based in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, sympathizes with his colleagues back home--"It's easier for us to digest if we can attribute everything to a single group"--but he doesn't buy the analysis. "It's more like gangs...
...biotech firms that regularly make money today. That number could triple by 2007, says Viren Mehta, principal at Mehta Partners, a global health-care investment group. Turning the corner on profits is more critical than ever, because large drug companies have tired of taking big risks in biotech and tend to shun early-stage research in favor of safer investments in drugs near approval or already approved. Bristol-Myers Squibb made a disastrous $2 billion investment in 2001 in ImClone Systems, which suffered costly setbacks with its cancer drug Erbitux before that drug had a breakthrough this spring. With...
...getting married on a beach in the Caribbean these days," says Vikki Berg, travel editor at Brides magazine in the U.K. "People prefer to go off to a villa in Italy instead." Tuscany and Umbria are the most popular venues - though Italians themselves, like the French and Spanish, still tend to wed at home. Ireland, Austria, Malta and Cyprus are also popular choices. Bulgaria has become a favored spot for Israelis, who have to travel abroad for civil ceremonies as these aren't permitted under Israeli law. Most of the couples understand Bulgarian because they're immigrants from the former...
...think there was a misunderstanding, in that the Summer School was under the impression that the course exists solely to enroll Summer School students, when in fact Summer School students tend to comprise approximately 15 percent of the people that enroll,” he said...
Have you ever put the hard word on anyone? Ah, no. I tend not to. It seems as if Hollywood is run by an Australian Mafia these days. Do you and Russell Crowe hang out? Well, Russell lives up in New South Wales, and I live down here in Victoria. So we're a fair distance from each other...