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...chief says that when it comes to hiring, plant operators are using "a much finer-toothed comb" than before 9/11 to keep troublemakers out. Potential employees are screened through numerous databases, checked for, among other things, mental-health problems, criminal records and questionable behavior in previous jobs. The NRC's confidence in its "insider mitigation program" is so high that the DBT specifically rules out the need to defend against an "active violent insider"--a turncoat employee willing to shoot and kill fellow workers. The DBT does consider the possibility of a single, nonviolent insider working with the terrorists...
...suspect has been arrested. Brigadier General Jaime Jiménez Muńóz, a Mexican army commander, believes that armed peasants, "desperate to earn money" by growing marijuana, may have done the killing. Indeed, military patrols have reported that entire villages have been abandoned by frightened peasants as soldiers comb the mountains, searching for the culprits. But evidence also indicates that powerful drug traffickers are behind the murders. "We are fighting intensely against drug traffic," insisted Attorney General Sergio García Ramírez in Mexico City. Still, few doubted that the government had lost a costly battle in its struggle with...
...Exchange Commission filings) is necessary to find more “exceptional” cases like PetroChina. But the quest to rid Harvard’s portfolio of all evil is fraught with pitfalls. The opportunity to go over Harvard’s foreign investments with a fine-toothed comb may make continued divestment proponents salivate. And it might yield a few more companies that Harvard should consider divesting from. But it would also reveal Harvard’s positions to other investors, and it would set a dangerous precedent. The HMC cannot feasibly operate with student oversight. Continued divestment...
...part of St. Patrick’s Day’s appeal is, I think, that while it demands little of participants it offers the feeling of community. We wouldn’t, after all, comb our closet for green clothes if everybody else weren’t doing the same thing. We wouldn’t—well, at least my roommate wouldn’t—drink Guinness, unless spurred to do so by a vague feeling of celebration. There is a deeply human compulsion to gather and to celebrate; in our more or less secular...
Pantano had the men's hands tied with plastic handcuffs. As he did so, he received word that a large arms cache had been found in the house the men had just left. Pantano ordered the Iraqis to comb their car for guns and explosives in case it was booby-trapped to blow. He had the men's handcuffs removed, and the two suspects started to pull off panels and seat covers...