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...prevent Iraqi agents from making contact with al-Qaeda fanatics willing and able to carry out terror schemes inside the U.S., the FBI is expected to dust off a few tricks developed during the Cold War to "bumper-lock" - confuse and immobilize - the KGB. A favorite: waves of double-agents, called "cold walk-ins," approach enemy agents and "volunteer" for nasty missions. If the ploy works, the FBI has achieved a penetration. Sooner or later the walk-ins are revealed as plants. IF they're burned a few times, so the theory goes, the Iraqis will suspect and reject even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Home, the FBI Keeps Tabs On Iraqis | 2/4/2003 | See Source »

...rear end of the vehicle sags due to the weight of the tank in the trunk,” wrote HUPD fleet manager Frank DiRienzo in an e-mail to Brown. “I put two other people in it besides myself and it just about left the bumper on the sidewalk...

Author: By Jenifer L. Steinhardt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HUPD Car Tests Out Natural Gas Power | 1/22/2003 | See Source »

...hydrogen operated $100,000 BMW 750 class) to a safer place of simplicity and community—a place where one spends less than $100 on holiday celebrations, uses green cleaning products, eats organic foods and celebrates a generally happy and fulfilled life. As Schor’s personal bumper sticker reads, “More Fun, Less Stuff...

Author: By Lisa M. Puskarcik, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Material World | 11/7/2002 | See Source »

...discharge conveyor, hydraulically powered swing-away anvil and bolt-on wear liner. Did somebody say "features"? This 51-ft.-long, 74,000-lb. $489,000 monster lives to "process large volumes of wood waste to a fine uniform mulch," according to a sign at its 10-ft.-wide front bumper. And, baby, that includes every kind of wood waste up to full-length logs--as much as 150 tons an hour. Clearly, this ain't a tea party. This is Waste Expo 2002, the annual trade show and convention of the U.S. solid-waste industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Talk Trash | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

Sitting on the rear bumper of her Jeep, Karen Byrns said she was just glad to finally get her son Corey’s “stuff out of her house...

Author: By Anne K. Kofol, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: First-Years, Parents Descend on Yard | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

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