Word: collections
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...suicide pilots knew about their confederates before they gathered Tuesday morning at their assigned planes--or if they knew others would undertake similar missions. But preliminary information suggests that the cells followed classic bin Laden practice: over time, cell members built up a small local support network to collect information, rent houses, buy equipment for the "sleeper" operatives while they waited to be activated. As happened with the East Africa embassy bombings, agents think only a few superior handlers--a Commander X or two--sent perhaps by HQ at the penultimate moment, knew how the final pieces were meant...
...donations of $3 or more to benefit victims of last week’s terrorist attacks, students received scoops of ice cream or chocolate-covered Peace Pops, donated by Ben and Jerry’s of Harvard Square. Volunteers with the PBHA-sponsored program, Peace Pops, will continue to collect donations infront of the Science Center today from...
None of the interiors she has designed look capital-D decorated. Also not for her are the empty recesses of stark minimalism. She understands that people collect stuff, and finds a way to let them, without causing clutter. This balancing act lends her interiors a certain timelessness. Her own home, which she decorated seven years ago, mixing custom-made pieces with a chair found in the trash, is still being photographed for decorating magazines...
Also helping collect donatations was Mervin John ’05, a New York City native. He said his brother, who goes to Stuyvesant High School, was not able to contact his family for over four hours Tuesday morning. Stuyvesant is located near where the World Trade Center buildings used to stand...
...Improving intelligence gathering is only part of the problem. "Americans are in love with technology, but we haven't learned to properly process and make sense of the information it helps us collect," says Steele. "We only process 10 percent of what we collect. And often the job falls to inexperienced people who don't understand the significance of what they're seeing. A combination of inexperienced field personnel, a bad processing system and the continuing bureaucratic distance between the FBI and the CIA may have conspired to keep us from breaking the back of Bin Laden's latest operation...