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...Bush struggled to explain away the past, Cheney was being investigated by the SEC and sued by Halliburton shareholders and the conservative activist group Judicial Watch. The allegation: that Halliburton, while Cheney was CEO, greased the books to boost the firm's flagging fortunes. Its decline was due in part to Cheney's signature strategic move--Halliburton's merger with Dresser Industries in 1998, when Dresser was about to be buried under asbestos-contamination lawsuits. Halliburton remains burdened with the liability of more than 200,000 suits and as of last year was on the hook for $125 million...
...Glaciorisk, a six-country scientific project that aims to improve our understanding of glacier hazards and establish a database that will include "problem glaciers." Valla estimates there are probably 100 glaciers in the Alps alone that "could cause worry and create victims." In Macugnaga, scientists are still struggling to explain why the glacier is sliding down the mountainside so fast. All that melting water may be a factor, but the movement may also have something to do with the glacier itself - the distribution of its ice mass and its underground water pressure. Regardless of what is behind the Macugnaga incident...
...prancing around in the undergarments of the opposite sex. My favorite example of eccentricity, though, occurred on the final day of the first term, when one student decided that his ice cream bar was more useful as face paint than as tasty nourishment. When I asked the student to explain his unexpected maneuver, he kept smearing the chocolate on his cheeks and told me that he was merely “expressing his emotions” and “trying to cheer people...
...Denver's Bruce Baumgartner has been one of the country's most outspoken critics of the TSA, and he took a great deal of time to explain to us the alternative systems he has researched and proposed for his airport. It's a thin line for Baumgartner, and for me, really. Of course we want airport security to be airtight, and we do not want to reveal anything that might aid someone who wants to do harm. In my reporting since Sept. 11, I have discovered a number of security issues that I have in the end not written about...
...believes that emphasis on employee satisfaction--and its downstream result, superior customer service--comes more naturally to women than men. That may help explain why 10 of the top 24 executives at Southwest are women. "It would be great for the industry if more women were running things," says Barrett. The downside for Southwest may be seeing its rivals get better at pleasing workers and travelers...