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DENVER -- Yusuf Hussain, after spending seven years in Colorado, packed up his three-bedroom house in Littleton last week in search of a better life. He says he will find it in Pakistan. The 39-year-old executive came here from Pakistan just as the U.S. tech economy was taking off in 1996. Today, he is being lured back by what he can't find here: Jobs, wealth and economic activity. Many foreign nationals no longer view America as the land of opportunity. Economists, businesspeople and other experts say growing numbers of immigrants are moving back to their home countries of Pakistan, India,...

Email kept from BBC board · Governors split over 'dumbing down' of Today programme · Gilligan accused of being 'too distant' from colleagues Kamal Ahmed and Martin Bright Sunday August 17, 2003 The Observer BBC governors were not shown a damning email sent by the editor of the Today programme about Andrew Gilligan's report that the Government had deliberately 'sexed up' intelligence to make a case for war against Iraq. The email, sent by Kevin Marsh to Stephen Mitchell, Head of Radio News and his immediate manager, said that Gilligan had been guilty of 'loose use of language' in his...

The Treasury Department has sought economic sanctions for a number of Saudi groups tied to terrorism, an agency official told Congress yesterday, but has been stymied by the State Department and other government agencies. R. Richard Newcomb, director of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, told a Senate panel that an interagency national security committee -- including representatives from State, the Justice Department and other agencies -- has rejected his office's recommendations that certain charities and other entities be subject to sanctions for ties to terrorism. Newcomb was reluctant to name the organizations or say how many times his office...

A lack of cooperation from the Bush administration could hamper an independent inquiry into the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the commission's leaders say. "The task in front of us is monumental, and time is slipping by," said Thomas H. Kean, the commission's chairman. "Every day lost complicates our work." Kean and the panel's vice chairman, Lee Hamilton, gave a blunt status report Tuesday after arriving in Washington for the commission's third public hearing, to be held Wednesday on Capitol Hill. The hearing focuses on terrorism, al-Qaida and the Muslim world. Kean, a Republican former governor of New Jersey, and Hamilton,...

The executive editor of The New York Times outlined a series of steps yesterday that he said the newspaper would take to prevent any recurrence of journalistic fraud, in reaction to revelations of extensive plagiarism and fabrication by a reporter. In an e-mail message to the newspaper's staff yesterday, the editor, Howell Raines, announced that a committee would be formed to address what went wrong. He also said that two top editors would examine what repairs needed to be made to the paper's systems for managing expense accounts and keeping track of reporters' locations. And he said he would be...

PayPal has extended its ban on porn to include products from parent company eBay's 'mature audience' section. Other items include drugs, firearms and humans PayPal, the payment service eBay purchased for $1.5bn (£935m) in October, this month published its revised policy on processing payment for adult material. Only PayPal members can access the policy statement. The April revision amends a March decision that stopped payment for sexually explicit goods except those listed under eBay's "Mature Audiences". The latest revision includes eBay's merchandise in the virtual ban. "The thinking behind the March decision was that because eBay had already put in...

Miami-Dade Officer Arrested, Fired Over Disputed Accident Report The Associated Press MIAMI (AP) - A Miami-Dade County police training officer was arrested Thursday on charges that he convinced a rookie to falsify a report detailing an accident involving a police vehicle. Flavio Escobar, 30, was charged with three felony counts of official misconduct, according to the state attorney's office. Each count carries a maximum penalty of five years in state prison and a $5,000 fine. Escobar was released Thursday on $5,000 bond. He was also fired. "We think this thing got blown way out of proportion," said the man's attorney,...

Wednesday, January 15 49ers release Mariucci from final year of contract -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ESPN.com Steve Mariucci is out as head coach of the San Francisco 49ers. 49ers general manager Terry Donahue told ESPN.com's John Clayton today that Mariucci has been released from the final year of his contract and no longer is the team's head coach. Sources told Clayton that there were philosophical differences between Mariucci and John York, the owner's representative, about Mariucci's role within the organization. Sources said that Mariucci had been asking for the title of vice president of football operations. Former Vikings coach Dennis Green and 49ers...

Web Site: ScienceDaily Magazine Page URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/10/021024070050.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Original Source: Brigham Young University Date Posted: 10/24/2002 Better Detection, Not Global Warming, Behind Increase In Large Antarctic Icebergs, New BYU Study Shows PROVO, Utah -- Contrary to an opinion held by some researchers, a new analysis of more than 20 years of historical data has found no evidence that the increasing number of large icebergs off Antarctica's coasts is a result of global warming trends. "The dramatic increase in the number of large icebergs as recorded by the National Ice Center database does not represent a climatic change," said Brigham Young...

<p>NAPLES, Florida (CNN) --The Georgia woman who prompted Friday's terror scare was "flat-out lying" when she told authorities she overheard three Muslim men at a restaurant laughing about September 11 and making suspicious comments, one of the men said late Friday.</p>

Tracked vehicle no longer used in 2ID training By Jeremy Kirk, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Friday, August 9, 2002 CAMP RED CLOUD, South Korea — The 57-ton tracked vehicle that ran over two South Korean girls will no longer be used by the division, a U.S. Army official said Wednesday. The armored vehicle-launched MICLIC, or AVLM, is no longer in the 2nd Infantry Division inventory, said Maj. Brian Maka, public affairs officer. The AVLM was used to carry the mine clearing line charge, an explosive used to detonate mines to clear a path for vehicles. Instead, the mine clearing...

<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Why did FBI Director Robert Mueller desperately stamp "classified" on last week's memo to him from the Minneapolis agent and counsel Coleen Rowley?</p> <p>Answer: Because he is protecting the bureau's crats who ignored warnings from the field before Sept. 11, and because he is trying to cover his own posterior for misleading the public and failing to inform the president in the eight months since.</p>