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...1980s hunting military secrets of the cold war as a defense attaché in the U.S. embassy in Bulgaria, where, according to the Times of London, he was known to dress as a workman and ride buses listening to off-duty soldiers talking (he speaks Bulgarian). That was about the extent of his undercover work; he was always more in the business of data analysis than field operations. He has considerable public relations savvy. When he took over the NSA in 1999, it was still a very secretive place--the nerve center of U.S. espionage--and what little was said about...
...Area Neighborhood Association, said that some land to the west of the Weld Hill plot had already been developed into a home for the elderly by the city. “The city built a facility that was very modest, representing to the people that that would be the extent of it,” Beitler said. “But now the whole nine acres is this gigantic concrete building.” He added that the city had justified the expansion by saying that the Weld Hill site next door would always...
...issue now is to what extent the experience has psychologically scarred Webb and Russell. Several things are in their favor. As miners-without tendencies toward claustrophobia and with a fair idea of what the rescue effort unfolding above them would have involved-there's no doubt they coped better than would a desk-bound worker in a similar crisis. Also crucial was their having each other for company. In those grim days between the accident and contact with rescuers, "these men, I suspect, would have confided in each other things they'd never previously told anyone . . . that's what...
...year after Lascaux was hit by fungal infection - the original Altamira cave was shut down again. "There was no evident problem, but we needed better instruments to monitor the cave's conditions," says Lasheras. "In another two years, we'll reopen it again, but only to the extent that the scientists consider safe." Niaux, on the northern slopes of the Pyrenees, has also learned lessons from Lascaux. "Right now we have a problem with high humidity deep in the cave," says Pascal Allard, the cave's director. "Thanks to the work that's been done in Lascaux...
...governmental organizations working in the region say only a robust international intervention will stop the killing. Matt Bryden, director of the Horn of Africa Project for aid and lobby group International Crisis Group, points out that "the extent of Khartoum's resistance [to a beefed-up peacekeeping force] hasn't been fully explored yet." If the talks in Abuja fail, that may be the only option left to end the slaughter...