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In all that big thinking, al-Qaeda was an inconvenience at best. Strategy so overwhelmed tactical thinking in the Bush Administration that practicalities of any sort-except the military details of an Iraq invasion-were bumped down the ladder to deputies. The terrorist threats that were setting George Tenet's...
Critics, however, won't have been disabused of their claim that the strategic mindset of Rice and other top officials had left the administration's focus before 9/11 on issues such as missile defense at the expense of grasping the immediacy of the terror threat. Expect to see discussion about...
This year’s pool also contained the lowest number of valedictorian applicants in five years. Fitzsimmons attributed the decline to the increase in schools doing away with class rank.
field meter," Edwards says. "The only thing I know for sure is that it contained more than 1,250 p.p.b. lead." Five thousand parts per billion is classified as hazardous; a city's water supply is considered unsafe if lead levels in more than 10% of tested samples exceed 15...
In May 2003 Edwards began collecting more water samples. His research--unfunded by any official sources and assisted only by his dedicated students--reached the startling conclusion that chloramine, which is used to minimize the amount of disinfection by-products in drinking water, was causing lead to leach from lead...