Word: arizona
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...September evening in 1999, Dr. Richard Carmona was driving to a University of Arizona football game in Tucson when he came across a traffic accident. A pickup truck had rear-ended a car. Carmona, a trauma surgeon and deputy sheriff on the local SWAT team, started to approach the truck when bystanders shouted that the driver had a gun. Carmona, who was off duty but carrying a pistol, called for backup and moved in, asking the driver to put down his weapon. The man was a mentally ill ex-convict who had murdered his father that day. He looked...
...preaching about bioterrorism and becoming prepared in case something happened," says battalion chief Les Caid of the Tucson fire department. "He was a voice in the wilderness for a few years." After Sept. 11 he was put in charge of implementing bioterror and emergency-preparedness plans for southern Arizona. That makes him a welcome new team member for a White House that has struggled on homeland security. Carmona will be in charge of the Commissioned Corps, 5,600 public-health officers who stand ready to handle national emergencies. And in the event of any future bioterrorism threats, Carmona will probably...
...course, as it tries to walk the straight and narrow to redemption, Andersen is faced with a lot of assaults. Negotiations between Andersen and litigious Enron shareholders have reportedly set a settlement figure at $250 million; another $217 million is due for a civil fraud case in Arizona. There's another $200 million in outstanding loans made to Andersen's overseas partners and guaranteed by the firm; creditors say they'll call them in immediately if those partners go elsewhere. And although those firms will owe Andersen hefty financial penalties of 1.5 times last year's revenues for defecting, collecting...
...institute is headed by a committee of professors, currently led by Michael Crow, a university administrator who will leave Columbia to accept the presidency of Arizona State University on July 1. According to the Herald Tribune article, Sachs is being offered that leadership position...
Undaunted, Rechul set about this task, defeating Penn State’s Pat Cummins, 4-1, Ryan Kehler of West Virginia, 6-1 and Kellan Fluckiger of Arizona State, 6-2. Both Kehler and Fluckiger had beaten Rechul in the past...