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...would justify their cost. In February, Sweeney complained to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, which investigates the charges of whistle-blowers. The agency, after examining the facts, agreed there was a "substantial likelihood" that corps officials illegally wasted funds, and it referred the case to Defense Secretary William Cohen for further investigation. (The lock study has cost $54 million since 1993.) Corps headquarters has characterized Sweeney's charges as "very troubling" and has pledged to root out any wrongdoing. In addition to the Pentagon, Congress and the National Academy of Sciences are looking into Sweeney's allegations. Despite...
...Republican of the very moderate kind (his chief post-military position is that he's been gung-ho about volunteerism), and Gore's from an administration that's made its living square in the political center. And there's presidential precedent: Bill Clinton's current secretary of defense, Bill Cohen, is a moderate Republican. Perhaps Gore should pre-emptively announce that he'd name Powell as State majordomo, and thereby undercut any advantage that Bush is seeking...
...turned to how to read the messages of DNA. To our surprise, Frederick Sanger at Cambridge University and Walter Gilbert at Harvard, working independently, needed less than a decade to develop powerful methods for determining the order of DNA letters. At roughly the same time, Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen devised elegantly simple procedures for cutting and rejoining DNA molecules to produce "recombinant...
...Adam Cohen...
...latest Los Alamos security lapse may mean big trouble for Bill Richardson, but they're unlikely to trouble Bill Cohen much. Energy Department officials admitted Monday that computer disks bearing an undisclosed amount of classified information on both U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons went missing from a vault at Los Alamos National Laboratory earlier this month, in the wake of the brushfire that saw much of the facility evacuated. And while officials stressed that they don't believe at this stage that espionage was involved, the revelations certainly leave egg on the face of Energy Secretary Richardson, who ordered...