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| Cyber Threat |
 FOR the last two months, senior
government officials and private-
sector experts have paraded
before Congress and
described in alarming terms a
silent threat: cyberattacks carried out
by foreign governments. Robert S
Mueller III, the director of the FBI, said
cyberattacks would soon replace terrorism
as the agency's No 1 concern as ... |
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| RESPECT THE
FUTURE |
 LAST fall I asked readers
over 70 to send me 'Life
Reports' essays evaluating
their own lives. Charles
Darwin Snelling responded
with a remarkable 5,000-word
reflection.
Snelling was a successful entrepreneur
who spent decades serving
his community. He was
redeemed, he reported, six years
ago when his beloved wife,
Adrienne
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Hadiiya Barbel
IT wasn´t your traditional sample sale. On a
recent lunch hour, a stream of well-coiffed professional
women descended upon a salon in
the Flatiron district of Manhattan. They
weren´t tearing through boxes of designer
shoes or ripping through racks of clothing ...
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is help for buyers |  ANEW breed of
social shopping
startups – basically
online curators
of fancy things to
buy from all corners of the
Web – has been popping up
with head-spinning frequency.
There are too many to
count, as if all the venture
capitalists had collectively
responded to an email that
promised that you, too, could
make $25 an hour just by sitting
at home and picking out
things for other people to buy.
Most follow a basic, lowoverhead
business plan: A
prominent socialite or stylish
magazine editor posts links to
her favourite looks from
online retailers (like Barneys
New York, Net-a-Porter or
Saks Fifth Avenue), customers
buy, the site gets a
commission. It may sound
like a ... | | | Keep family, work
balanced: Karisma |
 ACTRESS Karisma Kapoor, who had
taken a break from films after marriage,
says it is good to work provided
you set your priorities right. "I
have taken a huge break in the middle,
which I really enjoyed. Taking care of kids
and family was very important to me. That will
always be my first priority," said Karisma who is
returning to movies after nine years.
"Now my daughter is older and she has started
going to school, so I get time. You work in moderation
and prioritise things, it´s good to work
and be active," the 37-year-old told reporters at
the launch of McDonalds Spongebob Happy
Meal.
Karisma quit showbiz after marrying Delhibased
businessman Sanjay Kapur ... | | | Trailer from Houston´s new
film makes its debut |
 VIEWERS got a first glimpse of
Whitney Houston´s upcoming
film on Monday when NBC´s
Today show premiered a trailer
for the much-awaited
release.
A remake of the 1976 original, Sparkle
stars Houston as the mother of three girls
who form a singing group and struggle
with fame and drug addiction. The trailer
displayed the daughters, including
American Idol winner Jordin Sparks, in
performance. Houston is prominent
throughout, at one point singing the classic
gospel song His Eye Is on the
Sparrow.
She also tells one of her daughters: "I
always knew you had the gift. It makes me
feel like I did something right. Don´t lose
it."
Debra Martin Chase, who is a producer
of the film ... | |
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