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Officials said that there are thousands of contract employees working for the State Department, and that when they are hired, they are given basic background checks - for instance, looking at whether they have a police record. The department, however, asks no questions regarding their political backgrounds or activities...
...State Department contract employees have been fired, and another one reprimanded, for what department officials say were three separate incidents of snooping into Democratic presidential frontrunner Barack Obama's passport files since January. Making the case even more puzzling is the fact that none of this came to the attention of top officials at State until Thursday afternoon, when a spokesman for the department was told about it by none other than a reporter. They had been dealt with at the "office level," said Patrick Kennedy, undersecretary of state for management. "I will fully acknowledge that this information should have...
...former school committee member publicly urged the body to extend the superintendent’s contract by at least two years last night, continuing the controversy surrounding the negotiations. As she took the microphone, Nancy Walser appealed to the Cambridge Public School Committee to move on the issue that could take until August to be finalized. “You must finish this contract,” said Walser, who served on the committee from 2000 to 2007. “It’s nearly April. A fourth of the year has gone by.” The length...
...potency is probably due to its unusual habitat. "It's unique to the Amazon," notes Alexander Schauss, senior scientist at AIBMR Life Sciences, a contract research organization in Washington. "The palm tree that has the aa berries is the canopy, the very top of the rain forest. Its berries are strongly exposed to ultraviolet radiation and have had to develop chemical strategies to deal with it." Which makes them an invaluable resource for skin health...
...Linhart said he signed his contract with the Army on March 20, 2003: the day American soldiers invaded Iraq...