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...Bureau of Engraving and Printing, an arm of the U.S. Treasury, produces 35 million notes a day with a face value of approximately $635 million at its two printing facilities--in Washington and Fort Worth, Texas--and all those greenbacks are printed on paper supplied by Crane and shipped by truck from Massachusetts. Any interruption in that production could be "devastating to the U.S. economy," Van Den Brandt says...
...dread at the mention of student government, last Tuesday’s vote by the Undergraduate Council (UC) to disband one of its own committees must have brought hope. But students’ satisfaction with this bill should come from the hope that the UC, having shed an obsolete arm, will be more efficient, not from glee that the student government seems to be disassembling itself. It is not; rather, it is recognizing its reduced role on a campus with a new mechanism for social programming. After weeks of discussion on several different restructuring plans (including plans to create...
...stride, hit in the thigh. The men around him open fire. Within seconds, insurgents start shooting from the opposite direction. A Marine tries to drag Tussey by a leg toward a humvee but gets stranded out in the open. Tasayco bolts forward and grabs the wounded man by the arm. Someone else joins him. Still firing, they shove him into the vehicle. Tasayco takes cover and looks for the shooter. "Where the hell is this guy at?" he hollers. No one answers. "C'mon, everybody, let's go. Pick it up. Get the f___ out of here, man," Tasayco shouts...
...every so often, they push back. Whenever an alligator kills a human, the state sends out trappers to catch and kill it. The animals responsible for the three recent attacks have all been trapped. Parts of Jimenez were found in the belly of a 9 1/2-ft. alligator, Cooper's arm and hand were recovered from an 8 1/2-footer, and Campbell's killer was identified by scratches around its eye. But it's not as if those particular alligators were more dangerous than most, and destroying them won't prevent future attacks. Officials say the best ways to avoid becoming dinner...
...quality of care in foreign hospitals high enough? To cater to an international clientele, many private hospitals abroad are applying for accreditation (many of them successfully) from the Joint Commission International, the global arm of the institution that accredits most U.S. hospitals. Many of the tourist hospitals teem with surgeons who have trained in the U.S. or Britain, which is a great comfort to American patients (the irony is that 25% of physicians in the U.S. got their M.D.s abroad). Escorts Heart Institute and Research Center in Delhi, for instance, was founded by an authority on robotic cardiac surgery...