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...effort to steal the nuclear material, and the reason for the break-in and the attackers' identity remain a mystery. "The break-in validated what we do. Current international security guidelines are woefully inadequate," Bieniawski says, adding that no amount of physical protection can provide total security or combat the "insider threat." All confirmed cases of illicit trafficking of HEU in the past 20 years have involved employees siphoning off material and attempting to sell it on the black market - such as the 1992 arrest of a Russian engineer caught trying to sell...
...instance, the state could provide tax incentives to private organizations or mental-health professionals seeking to address gambling issues. Any opportunity for legislators and individuals to create innovative solutions to new problems is a good one. One such solution employed by the state of New Jersey in order to combat gambling problems is a system that allows citizens to voluntarily ban themselves from in-state casinos. Massachusetts would do well to provide the same service and encourage its citizens—and employ its workers—to come up with others as well...
Jack J. Holuba ’13, a football player who loomed a head or more taller than most of the women in the room, said that it was important to combat portrayals of masculinity that reinforce stereotypes that objectify women...
...hard to recall now, in our video-saturated world, the dramatic impact of that first grainy videotape of real combat operations. U.S. Army General Norman Schwarzkopf wowed the world 19 years ago during the first Gulf War, when he swapped his maps and pointer for a large video screen. "I'm now going to show you a picture of the luckiest man in Iraq," the general said as the screen showed the fellow crossing a bridge moments before a U.S. bomb obliterated it. The effect was instantaneous, putting anyone with a TV inside the cockpit to witness death and destruction...
...combat this problem, many houses have put trays by the belts to aid students who choose to go trayless. This Tuesday in Annenberg, a HUDS worker was stationed by the belt to prevent problems, but Wechsler said that Green '13 would not be able to use HUDS workers in this way if it wanted to continue the program next year...