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...outbreak under control. But to keep the fungus in retreat, a team of restorers comes into the cave every two weeks - dressed, as everyone who enters now must be, in hooded biohazard suits, booties and face masks - to remove filaments from the walls. Another team visits regularly to audit the cave's sanitary condition using laser imaging. "They tell us the cave's condition is stable," says one member of the Scientific Committee of Lascaux Cave, set up by the French Ministry of Culture in 2002 to deal with the problem. "But that's what they say about Ariel Sharon...
While it is unclear what prompted this specific investigation, Kurisu said the council’s bylaws require the UC to conduct an audit at the end of each semester...
...were a little skeptical about our numbers nearing the end of the year, and so I started this audit,” Kurisu said...
...selling point the outdoor industry is improving: its metrics. How many people see an outdoor ad and when they see it can be tracked much more accurately than ever. Since 1933, the only equivalent of TV's Nielsen ratings for outdoor boards in the U.S. came from the Traffic Audit Bureau (TAB), which counted how many people passed a given sign. That antiquated system worked in local markets but couldn't capture the impact of a national campaign. So the industry has invested heavily in research, recognizing that big-time advertisers are demanding more accountability. Says TAB's president...
...contractor is not required to perform perfectly to be entitled to reimbursement." RHONDA JAMES, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokeswoman, on the Army's reimbursement to a Halliburton subsidiary of nearly $2.41 billion under a no-bid contract for work in Iraq, despite a Pentagon audit that found $263 million in questionable charges. The Army will pay all but $10.1 million of the contested costs...