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...poorly policed borders and potentially staggering profits provide both opportunity and incentive for illegal trading. Many hustlers in Moscow brazenly offer to sell small quantities of what they claim to be spent nuclear fuel stolen from production facilities. Often the ingredients these scam artists pass off as "samples" are benign substances, like cesium 137 and low-enriched uranium, that cannot be used to make a bomb. But no one doubts that a market for the real stuff exists. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, membership in the world's nuclear club requires only 55 lbs. of highly enriched uranium...
...campus hiding? A conversation I had with Facilities Maintenance a few years ago informed me that Harvard conducts only "spot treatments" of herbicides and pesticides. We need to ask ourselves if an occasional weed is that much of a threat. The "green stuff" sprayed each year contains an apparently benign mix of seed, fertilizer, fiber and food coloring (the reason it's green). Is the coloring really necessary? Are any of us fooled by this camouflage? Do we know what our lawn care products are doing to our area? Rain washes many of these chemicals off the lawn. Last August...
...amount to much, since we'll never be asked, and even if we were, we'd never pass even the first security test. Would you put your life on the line for your country? We don't think so. And spying seemed the perfect complement to our fairly benign issue. Plus, Spy (the magazine is dead, and we wanted to commemorate its passing...
...scandal, say some in Washington, serves as an overdue wake-up call for the U.S. government -- a notice that the benign esteem in which the Clinton foreign policy team holds Russia is dangerously myopic. The Ames scandal "ends the simpleminded optimism that we could have a relationship with Russia that would be without clouds," says Paul Goble, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "The simpleminded confidence that Yeltsin is a good guy is naive...
...When he came back, he said, 'Dan, it doesn't look benign, it looks like it's malignant...