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Even if the panel's recommendations are acted upon, would it make a difference? Could such changes actually enable the intelligence community to uncover and prevent the next 9/11? Backers of the panel's call for a single NID say the move would reduce the bureaucratic logjams that have contributed...
With daylight fading, the officers have toiled for an hour to make the fishing vessel inoperable, securing the wheel and rudder and applying a tow line. Orange life vests are dispatched to the Indonesians (most of whom decide to use them as comfortable seats). While the small, unstable vessel pitches...
A more controversial but nonetheless effective method of reducing transmission is to spray DDT inside huts and other buildings. Intriguingly, DDT is often better at repelling mosquitoes than killing them. This requires much less pesticide than was once sprayed on crops and swamps. Indeed, if DDT had been used only...
Yet Moser can't help noticing that her taxes keep going up. When she began her career on the medical faculty of Bonn University 25 years ago, she paid about one-third of her salary in taxes and social-security contributions. Today it's about half - far more than the...
"The outspoken Straus bluntly rejects the nostalgic notion that publishing was once a gentlemen's business. 'They were poor businessmen,' he says of many of the resonant names of the profession, 'poor marketers out to massage their own egos generation after generation.' Straus shuns the bureaucratic style of those merged...