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Police suit up for bioterror drill...
...baking them or by soaking them in vinegar. To prevent such breaches, referees provide regulation conkers to competitors prior to each match. The Ashton Conker Club sources the chestnuts from trees within a five-mile radius - to account for regional variations in ripeness and, therefore, hardness - and they precision-drill each...
...country develops the right and the means to drill for offshore oil in Antartica, and particularly if they hit pay dirt, it's not just that ecosystem that could be endangered. So could the ban on mining on the Antarctic continent itself, which can be lifted by unanimous agreement at any time. That is highly unlikely, but just a couple of decades ago, so was the prospect that the ice caps would melt. The British claim, and those that are sure to follow, amounts to a long-shot move that enables resorting to a future temptation. For the sake...
...over Lafayette, a single unit has remained the constant: the secondary. After the Crimson tied the game up at 17 at the end of the second quarter, the defensive backs really went to work on the Leopards wideouts. Lafayette marched down the field in the two-minute drill only to have senior safety John Hopkins—the reigning Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week—pick off Mike DiPaolo’s pass at Harvard’s three-yard line. Hopkins was all over the field: The senior finished second on the team with seven...
...That brings to mind the last component that would render a counterterrorism drill most effective. It would end with a clear-eyed and extensive public report. As it is, the TOPOFF reports are "for official use only," so they are not shared publicly - a level of secrecy that was criticized by some members of Congress last week. "What that does is it shields people from accountability," says Clarke. A good public report would not include truly secret information. It would identify problems and set deadlines for fixing them. And if it were public, there might actually be some pressure...