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...alarming when one secret agency's work spilled into the open recently, only to be dismissed by almost everyone involved. Meeting last month in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's private conference room, a group called the Defense Policy Board heard an outside expert, armed only with a computerized PowerPoint briefing, denounce the Saudis for being "active at every level of the terror chain, from planners to financiers, from cadre to foot soldier, from ideologist to cheerleader." Such claims have been on the rise since Sept. 11, when 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis. Relatives of those killed...
...your child antsy for the 2002 X Games to start this week? You might want to develop some extreme-sports chops with these miniaturized, slightly safer versions of the big kids' equipment. We asked a small group of 4- to 10-year-olds for their "expert" views on three of the latest hot wheels...
...which represents the country's major chemical manufacturers, also insists that security measures its members are already voluntarily drawing up can be in place faster than anything the government dictate. The Corzine bill "in effect slows down the work that's underway on security," says John Connelly, a security expert with the Council...
...sonic booms from the powerful new U.S. Navy submarine-hunting sonar that recently inflicted fatal hearing damage on beaked whales in the Bahamas--and prompted an outcry from environmentalists when the Bush Administration allowed these exercises to continue. "Extremely unlikely," says Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Darlene Ketten, an expert on marine-mammal hearing who found hemorrhaging and other signs of trauma in the beaked whales and is now examining tissue from the grounded pilots...
France's problems aren't just at the bottom of the market. In a report to the Agriculture Ministry last year, beverage expert Jacques Berthomeau singled out the more refined AOC sector. "Beneath the shelter of our Appellations d'Origine Contrôlée hide a number of wines which are mediocre, if not unworthy of the appellation," wrote Berthomeau. Widely assumed to be a badge of quality, the aoc label guarantees little more than the place where a wine was produced. Quality controls introduced in 1974 are administered by growers themselves: 98% of wines submitted pass the test...