Word: experts
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...with polystyrene beads, intended for infants. The two colleagues began their investigation with a simple test. Each held one of the suspect pillows to his own face and tried to breathe through it. "If you breathe into it for a minute or two, you're O.K.," says Kemp, an expert in the physiology of infant airways. "But after that you really feel out of breath and uncomfortable...
...jobs in sales, insurance and banking. "A lot of potential is being wasted," he says, noting that many of his clients are knowledgeable about countries where the Federal Republic had little or no diplomatic representation. "The former ambassador to Mongolia is just sitting at home, although he is an expert in his field and commands excellent contacts built up over many years...
...Medellin cartel is experiencing a meltdown, there is no guarantee that Escobar will not continue to deal in drugs from behind bars. "Ironically, coming out of hiding could help him to reorder a business that became difficult to manage on the lam," says a Bogota-based U.S. narcotics expert. Skeptics say that Escobar could be free in as little as three years. That may be just the rest a tired don needs to resuscitate himself and his cartel...
...officials secretly help supply weapons to Iran? Were they also helping the Iraqis to illegally acquire missile parts and chemical weapons? If they were willing, Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani could probably answer; if they were still alive, former CIA Director William Casey, Israeli counterterrorism expert Amiram Nir and Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini could...
...efforts to computerize the country's social services, proved to be a mixed blessing. Technocrats may admire systems like Bangkok's, which by 2006 will have stored vital data on 65 million Thais in a single, integrated computer network. But civil libertarians are appalled. Simon Davies, an Australian expert on such technology for the watchdog group Privacy International, says Bangkok's prizewinning program is, potentially, "one of the most repressive surveillance systems the world has ever seen...