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...secretly relieved at this change. The CIA is not suited for this kind of work, and an interagency effort is the only way to spread blame for an inherently risky program like this. And this is not to mention that if the program is ever launched again you can count on it that a Department of Justice attorney will be sitting in on each and every interrogation...
...operations unprofitable. The number of natural gas rigs operating in the U.S. has fallen well over 50% in the past year, according to EIA data. Because a given well's output decreases over time, producers need to drill new wells continually to keep up production. Thus, the falling rig count raises concern about the longer-term-supply outlook...
...challenging, since making reliable projections requires comparing the total number of people infected with H1N1, as confirmed by a lab test, to those who have died from the disease. At the moment, officials don't know how many people have actually been infected with the virus; they can only count people who are sick enough to see a doctor or come to a hospital. For every person who shows up in a hospital, however, there are likely hundreds or thousands more infected with H1N1 who never see a health care professional, because they don't get very ill. That means...
Change is afoot at his ad agency, Sterling Cooper. A British firm has bought it out, cutting head count by a third and playing the remaining employees against one another. One of the new overlords, financial officer Lane Pryce (Jared Harris), holds the newly tightened purse strings with a chilly distance from the staff and from the American illusion-weaving that the ad business is built on. Discussing client London Fog (the raincoat maker), he dryly notes, "There is no London fog. Never was. It was the coal dust from the industrial era. Charles Dickens and whatnot...
...just shows that the power of oil money counts for more than justice. There have been so many attempts to let him off. It has to do with money and power and giving Gaddafi what he wants. My feelings, as a victim, apparently count for nothing." - Susan Cohen, whose only child, Theodora, was one of a group of Syracuse University students on Pan Am flight 103, on the case's political overtones (New York Times...