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...biggest problem, as it so often is, is money. The dry rot at the CDC labs in Atlanta--where leaky walls are repaired with duct tape and a sputtering power system caused a blackout during the height of anthrax testing last fall--is only the most conspicuous part of the problem. Funding throughout the agency is so meager that members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service--a sort of disease SWAT team--cannot afford even such basic field equipment as two-way pagers...
...funeral procession, showing supporters in the unlikely pose of hoisting photos of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who sent a message of condolence to Shirazi's family. Iranian newspapers reported nothing of the disturbance in Qom, and made no mention of the cleric's views in obituaries. The total news blackout, along with the refusal of officials to comment, reveals just how threatened the establishment feels by even the quiet resistance of clerics. The desecration of Shirazi's corpse is a monumental embarrassment for the regime, not least because of the cleric's rank: he was one of fewer than...
Like Enron's, many firms' 401(k) plans can have blackout periods lasting from a few days to a few weeks when they change plan administrators. "That's not necessarily wrong or illegal," says Alden Bianchi, chairman of the employee-benefits group at the Mirick O'Connell law firm in Westborough, Mass. Employees need to make sure their 401(k) investments are diversified at all times--in case they can't shift them for a while...
...Three minutes," said the SAS guy. "Two minutes...30 seconds." Everyone crouched once more against the wall. Again a glistening white arrow screamed down, again the split-second blackout. "One more," said...
Until the bell actually rang, the reopening of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday - after its longest blackout since the "bank holidays" of the Depression - was hailed by every official personage, from President George W. Bush to New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to NYSE chief Richard Grasso, as a victory for the capitalists over the terrorists...