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Nearly everyone now agrees that it makes sense to combine many of the domestic-security responsibilities that are scattered across 22 federal agencies, which employ nearly 170,000 people, consume close to $37.5 billion a year and answer to 88 congressional committees and subcommittees. The various offices and agencies grew up, each with its own history, in bygone eras with concerns that now seem almost quaint: the Secret Service, to combat counterfeiters; the Customs Service, to collect tariffs; the Coast Guard, to prevent smuggling. But in the post-9/11 world, the threat has a different face. "Thousands of trained...
...important message about the treatment of the American Catholic laity. The issue arises twice in the document. The bishops mandate the establishment of clergy-review boards to advise each diocesan bishop on abuse cases, and they specify that a board's majority will be "lay persons not in the employ of the diocese." Some dioceses have had such boards for years, but others do not, and the bishops are aiming for a uniform standard and process for handling accusations. In its conclusion the charter goes further, addressing the laity in much broader terms: "We ... wish to affirm our concern especially...
...Armchair quarterbacking won't undo history." He and others add that Mueller became FBI chief just a week before the hit. But keeping calm on the sidelines serves another presidential purpose. Ever since it leaked that Bush had been briefed in August on the possibility that al-Qaeda might employ hijacking to advance its terrorist aims, the White House has carefully tried to insulate the President from suggestions that the FBI's failures were his failures as well. Better to keep him out of the story, the thinking goes, and direct attention--and blame--toward the bureau...
...years, doctors have used CAT scans and MRIs to help them diagnose strokes, brain tumors and other neurological conditions. But as the technology has become more sophisticated, researchers have started to employ it to tease out some of the subtle changes associated with mental illness. "We're not yet able to use these scans in a diagnostic way," says Dr. David Silbersweig of the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. "But we're getting pretty specific about the areas of the brain that are implicated in a number of psychiatric disorders...
...He’s known as somebody who is decisive, has good judgment, tended to employ people with good technical training as opposed to old style patronage politicians,” Coatsworth said. “So the other advantage people saw from him was his relative independence from the politics as usual...