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...when the subcontractors are indicted, the larger companies rarely come under fire and when they do, the charges are small and the fines low. A manager for ABX Air, Inc., an independent company that transports air cargo nationwide from its base in Ohio, pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor charge of hiring illegal workers in the Garcia case and agreed to a $10,000 fine. In 2003, Wal-Mart was raided by immigration agents who arrested 250 unauthorized immigrants on cleaning crews at 61 stores in 21 states. None of those arrested were Wal-Mart employees but rather employees of cleaning...
...best tool. It's crazy that in a country where schools are falling apart, we're spending $20 billion on nuclear weapons. Having the equivalent of 150,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs at the ready does nothing to protect us from terrorists planning to sneak in a bomb through a cargo container. If we reduced the amount we spend on maintaining our nuclear weapons by a small fraction, we could reallocate those funds to improve kids' health care and schooling...
...tanks came rumbling back with their wounded cargo, they came under fire. A missile blasted one of the Merkav 4s, killing a soldier and injuring a battalion commander. The second ran over a large explosive device planted by Hizballah that is identical to those used to such devastating effect against U.S. armored forces in Iraq. The force of the blast flipped over the 65-ton tank, killing the vehicle's commander and injuring three other crew. Earlier in the 12-day ground offensive, the Israelis had lost another tank to a hidden mine, killing four...
...called their port city, Alexandria, the jewel of the Mediterranean, but it has lately earned another reputation as "the outstanding champion of pollution," according to Mifsud. Factories dump waste water into the port's bays and into Lake Maryut, 1 km from the sea. Egypt's government blames the cargo traffic from the Suez Canal and oil tankers from the Persian Gulf. "We not only have to manage Egypt but the whole world's waste," says Mohammed Borhan, director general of coastal and maritime zone management for the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency. Pollution, like overfishing, threatens fish stocks...
Wilson will help operate the shuttle’s robot arm, which includes a special extension equipped with new cameras and laser scanners to assess the vehicle’s health. As the load master, Wilson will maneuver the mechanical appendage to deploy and retrieve cargo packages from to and from the space station...