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...Store builder Garner is unconcerned with Wal-Mart's corporate critics. "I think when you're the biggest and the best at what you do, people want to come after you," she says. Before Garner scored her contract with Wal-Mart, she flew to Wal-Mart's head office in Bentonville, Ark. Garner was on her own personal fact-finding mission. She had read much of the press on Wal-Mart and concluded that the company had got a raw deal. She returned convinced that Wal-Mart could be a great partner for the black community. "You know what...
...bring different experiences. Hopefully, by the time we leave, we'll have made the next person's job a little easier." During the short time they will spend among these people, the Kiwi and Tongans will play a variety of roles: police trainer, diplomat, trouble shooter, community builder. The country is in transition, its traditional ways under challenge from a torrent of new ideas. "We have to be careful about how much influence we expose the people to, especially in the outposts," says Curragh. "We are given a lot of power and authority. Sometimes we have to take a step...
...course, making a nuclear bomb is difficult and expensive. The key ingredient for a bomb builder is the fissile material--either highly enriched uranium or plutonium--which is difficult to produce secretly. Nuclear-radiation leaks, even in minute quantities, can be detected. But making a nuclear bomb isn't impossible. Under the apartheid regime--at a time when it was subject to international trade sanctions--South Africa managed to build six of them. (Until the breakup of the Soviet Union, South Africa was the only nation to willingly and verifiably give up its entire nuclear arsenal.) Leaving aside North Korea...
...Justice in 1986. Rehnquist is a strict constructionist (he interprets the Constitution in very narrow terms) who leans conservative. Very much in favor of states' rights. Often speaks in terms of leaving issues up to the "people's branch in government," i.e., the legislature. Widely considered a skilled consensus-builder...
...According to one frequently cited tale, a body builder competing in a footrace with a refrigerator strapped to his back was injured when one of the straps came loose; he sued several defendants, including the strapmaker, and won $1 million. The facts, according to the lawyers' group: ten athletes competed in a televised stunt race, each with a 400-lb. refrigerator strapped to his back; each received a written contract guaranteeing that the equipment had been tested for safety. Franco Columbo, a world-champion body builder, did fall and suffered total knee displacement that required extensive surgery. At the trial...