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iFive: AT&T Facebook Protest, Craigslist U.S. Defeat, Yahoo Brain Drain, Alzheimer's Drugs, BP Spreads the Blame

Having survived destruction at the hands of two asteroids yesterday, the world spun on through the night and more news happened READ»

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Crib Sheet: The Bilderberg Group, a Real-Life Illuminati for Conspiracy Theorists

Just outside of Barcelona there is a pretty little seaside resort called Sitges. Beloved by the gay community and horror movie aficionados, it is this year's venue for the Bilderberg Club's annual general meeting. "The what?" asked ...READ»

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Military Time

For Mike Mullen, Wednesday, January 6, was what one of his aides describes as a "pretty generic" day. Take a look at his schedule:READ»

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How America's Top Military Officer Uses Business to Boost National Security

Admiral Mike Mullen says the sea was his business. Now, as America's top military officer, he's reshaping strategy for a world in which economics and security are intertwined.READ»

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Militainment: Is Shooting People Virtually Changing Our Opinion of War?

Snatching the pixelated pin from a virtual hand-grenade and tossing it to frag a digital enemy may be thrilling for gamers, but isn't close to the real thing. But it is close enough for military involvement in gaming tech. Over at ...READ»

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Jill Starr's International News Photo Expose On 2 Decades of American Governmental Resistance

Jill Starr grades America on 2 decades of "democracy" & "human/civil rights."READ»

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Serbia & Montenegro Beat EU On Anti- Counterfeiting Laws & EU Standards

When traveling throughout Serbia & Montenegro in August 1999 for three weeks vacation. I also found Serbia & Montenegro banks to be 100% in accordance with EU anti-counterfeiting laws & guidelines.READ»

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Robert Latham at New School Allowed Ethnic Albanian To Condone Genocide Against Serbian Orthodox Christians in Kosovo

VI. As I said I left early but I will never forget his phrase stating: “I, Fatmos Ljubonia, have come to the New School for Social Research to ask you, The New School students, to give me, Fatmos Ljubonia, new creative nationalist ideas to PROMOTE AND TO CONSTRUCT A GREATER ALBANIA!”READ»

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What It’s Like to Chill Out With : Ratko Mladic, Goran Hadzic and Radovan Karadzic

Retrospectively, it was all so simple, natural and matter of fact being on a boat restaurant in Belgrade, sitting with, laughing, drinking a two hundred bottle of wine and chatting about war and peace while Ratko Mladic held my hand. Mladic, a man considered the world’s most ruthless war criminal since Adolf Hitler, still at large and currently having a five million dollar bounty on his head for genocide by the international community. Yet there I was with my two best friends at the time, a former Serbian diplomat, his wife, and Ratko Mladic just chilling. There was no security, nothing you’d ordinarily expect in such circumstances. Referring to himself merely as, Sharko; this is the story of it all came about.READ»

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NATO Tweets Too [Updated]

Twitter gained a lot of credibility thanks to its use by Iranian protestors recently, and we already knew that it was useful for spreading breaking news. But did you know that NATO, the global military machine, Twitters ...READ»

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iPod Goes to Boot Camp to Help You Snipe Better

This is a wonderful (or perhaps just sickly bizarre) mix of pleasure and danger: It's an iPod Touch mounted to a sniper rifle. And it's not just there to deliver some banging battlefield tunes to the ear of the guy behind the trigger, ...READ»

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Time to Take Stock

"We're not only fighting back militarily, but we're also fighting back with our values."READ»

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Soldiering On

With an honest answer to a simple question, General Eric Shinseki enraged his bosses -- and capped a brilliant military career.READ»

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Fast Talk: My Hardest Decision

Like a career, a company is the result of moves made and of opportunities lost. Five high-profile leaders reflect on their most difficult calls.READ»

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The King of Kreme

Doughnuts to die for. An inside look at the temple of doughnuts -- the facility on Ivy Avenue in Winston-Salem, North Carolina where every Krispy Kreme begins.READ»

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The Way to Enough

Norsk Hydro's work-life experiments test a radical idea: A company can compete on the basis of balance. The company's central thesis: The race goes not to the swiftest but to the most sustainable.READ»

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Run Wesley, Run

Thanks in part, no doubt, to the tireless work of the folks behind the Web site Draft Wesley Clark, it seems the former NATO commander may actually throw his hat in the ring for the 2004 Presidential race. I'm not sure this is the ...READ»

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Andrew Mackay - Fast 50 2002

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Campaign for Collaboration

How do you reintroduce law and order to a society brutalized by war? A winner of our first-ever Fast 50 readers' challenge, Andrew Mackay ran a team that applied business principles to persuade different actors in Kosovo to work together to promote security and justice.READ»