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The bureau, they say, has uncovered financial records showing a steady stream of payments to the family of one of the students, Omar Al Bayoumi. The money moved into the family’s bank account beginning in early 2000, just a few months after hijackers Khalid Almidhar and Nawaf Alhazmi arrived in Los Angeles from an Al Qaeda planning summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, according to the sources. Within days of the terrorists’ arrival in the United State, Al Bayoumi befriended the two men who would eventually hijack American Flight 77, throwing them a welcoming party in San Diego and guaranteeing their lease on an apartment next door to his own....

Home Health Care Home health care is medical care and assistance provided within one’s own home. This can include: professional nurses; nurses’ aides; physical, occupational, or speech therapists; dietitians; and medical social workers. The term home health care generally refers to services that provide medical or caregiving services. So, what kinds of services might home health provide? Medication management and administration Bathing or showering Physical, occupational, or speech therapy Assistance with getting dressed, grooming, and eating....

The delicacy of thick noodles made from fermented corn flour sat in the family’s freezer for “nearly one year” before it was prepared and consumed at the gathering on October 5, state newspaper China Daily reported. Twelve relatives were present at the breakfast gathering in the county of Jidong in the northeastern Chinese province of Heilongjiang, but only nine more senior members ate the dish known as “suantangzi.” Three younger family members refused the food because of a “strange taste,” the paper said....

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) published the findings from its gender social norm index, the first of its kind, on Thursday, with Director Pedro Conceição branding the results “shocking.” “We have come a long way in recent decades to ensure that women have the same access to life’s basic needs as men. We have reached parity in primary school enrollment and reduced maternal mortality by 45 percent since the year 1990, said Pedro Conceição, head of UNDP’s Human Development Report Office, in a statement published by the UNDP....

Gandal, 49, from Loveland, Colo., says he gave up pretexting for cell-phone records last winter when the tactic came under criticism from telephone companies and lawmakers (Gandal testified at a congressional hearing on the practice in June). But as the disclosures about the boardroom mess at Hewlett-Packard came to light, it’s clear that pretexting is still employed by private detectives and information brokers. Telcos have filed dozens of lawsuits against pretexters this year and several pending state and federal bills would make it a crime–though most security experts say it’s already illegal under the Federal Trade Commission’s unfair and deceptive trade practices statute....

There won’t be a hearty welcome then, when Ivan comes marching home. The Soviet Union is already overloaded. One example: in Dzerzhinsk, 230 miles east of Moscow, 27 Soviet military families are now living two families to a room; all 70 people share two toilets and a single kitchen. Things are so bad, some of them even long for the barracks they left when they pulled out of Eastern Europe....

Wall Street indeed credits his leadership. Morgan Stanley economist William Sullivan: ‘You have to give him credit for experimenting with the economy’s speed limit. He recognized there has been a recalibration … that has broken all the rules.’ Thank his tax cuts. ‘[T]he Reagan boom continues … all [Clinton] did was paddle his surfboard out to the coming wave of the business cycle.’ (National Review Online) ‘A Republican-led Congress and the Clinton administration should share in the praise… [T]hey did restrain federal spending....

The difference, it turned out, wasn’t due to the mice’s genetic code, nor was it due to the environment. It lay instead in a mechanism that was mediating between the two. A gene in the sickly yellow babies was making a disease-causing protein called Agouti, which also affects coat color. The brown babies had the same gene, but it wasn’t making much of anything. It had mostly stopped working. The brown babies’ mothers had eaten a special diet during pregnancy: one rich in folic acid, which floods the body with tiny four-atom configurations called methyl groups....

So what if Los Angeles was only a two-hour drive up the coast? San Diegans had a decidedly un-Hollywood way of viewing the world and themselves. Locals took great pride in the surf culture, and the already strong sense of community was deepened by the fact that enemies-Los Angeles, all the kooks who didn’t surf, the NFL’s Raiders, workaholics, the Arizona tourist ‘Zonies who took over Mission Beach-were clearly identified....

Washington owner Dan Snyder made it official on July 13, as the team is looking to move on from the offensive, racist and derogatory team name amid financial pressure from sponsors and, equally as important, pressure from Native Americans who wanted the team to abandon the name. Mission accomplished, but there could be some time before the Washington NFL franchise settles and unveils a new name. There are some signals that could point to the new moniker, as betting odds, Dwayne Haskins and a mystery man all potentially point to a favorite for a new name: the Redwolves....

Nearly a year and a half after Saddam crushed an Iranianbacked Shiite uprising in the aftermath of Desert Storm, Teheran is still meddling in southern Iraq. It trains Iraqi insurgents and provides them with money and arms. A major dissident group, the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, is based in Teheran. According to Hamid Yusef Hammadi, Iraq’s information minister, “a few thousand” Iranian agents are currently operating in the marshes....

We were on the Kuwaiti border in an area we called “Cochise,” directing airstrikes on Iraqi artillery positions. Several times the enemy had opened up on us with rockets and artillery. They were getting better by the minute, so we moved to another location. When they finally came at us, the tracer fire from the 12.7mm machine guns on their armored vehicles was intense, but they were shooting high. We were about 100 meters from them, armed mostly with M-16s and light weapons....

Suddenly that’s all changed. Instead of being a bit player, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has become the center of a diplomatic whirlwind that would put Henry Kissinger to shame. Erdogan was received with full state honors in Washington last week by George W. Bush, who described Turkey as a “friend and important ally”–a far cry from last year’s conventional wisdom that a liberated Iraq would supplant Turkey as America’s key military and political platform in the region....

I don’t know why I didn’t act sooner. After all, I’m a doctor, and I have always told my patients to take their health seriously. But I guess I’m human first. You see, I had missed just one day of work in 24 years of dentistry and, like my dentist-father before me, I never thought there could be anything wrong with me. Somewhere inside I must have thought I could be immune from the very disease I try to help patients prevent....

The FSB is back. From the Kremlin to the streets, the old secret police have over the past six months regained much of their influence and the power they lost after the fall of the Soviet Union. President Vladimir Putin, an ex-KGB man who has made law and order a priority, has promoted dozens of former and serving FSB officers to key positions in the Kremlin and the administration. In an echo of the bad old days, the security services harass “hooligans,” recruit activists to spy on their friends and silence government critics....

The outbreak appears to have originated when untreated well water was used for drinking and making snow cones and lemonade. Health officials suspect that an infectious strain of E. coli, often found in cow manure, washed into the ground water from a nearby barn. (Other outbreaks have been traced to ground beef, tainted in slaughterhouses.) By late last week the outbreak had peaked and State Health Commissioner Antonia Novello promised new water regulations at future fairs....

Sooner or later in his long, illustrious career Gregory Peck had to play Abraham Lincoln. It was a role he seemed destined for, with his lanky, 6-foot-3 frame, his dark, formidable eyebrows, his aura of decency, judiciousness and flinty conviction. He finally did, in 1982, in a TV movie called “The Blue and the Gray.” But a Lincolnesque spirit inhabits many of his characters, none more so than Atticus Finch, the widowed Southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962)....