Word: feds
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When the card key is fed into the reader, the transaction is relayed to a central computer. If the card number is valid at the time and location of entry, the system opens the door. The records are stored for about a month before new entries are recorded and old ones deleted. The information may be accessed by the College any time before it is deleted...
Instead, Bush fed the American people a diet of bullshit rhetoric that redefines the criteria for criminality. It doesn't matter that Weinberger et al violated the law, he said, because "the common denominator of their motivation--whether their actions were right or wrong--was patriotism...
...noon the lead armored vehicle, with Old Glory waving, shifts into first gear, followed by 76 five-ton trucks, humvees and amphibious light armored vehicles. Belt-fed machine guns, mortars or antitank missile launchers are mounted on each vehicle. Every one of the 700 carries an automatic rifle. Marines pull on heavy desert-camouflage flak jackets and don steel helmets. Ammunition clips snap into place. The men of Team Tiger, the name given to the group of Marines going to Baidoa, are expecting trouble...
...especially those under five, can carry the scars for life. They can go blind from lack of vitamin A. They may never achieve their full height. Girls may never be able to safely bear children because of malformed pelvises. And mental function is often impaired. "Even when they are fed and back on their feet, you'll have a generation of kids with a considerable degree of retardation," says Michael D'Adamo of Catholic Relief Services...
...culture shock even for me," says second-grade teacher Avis Watts, who was raised in the Virginia countryside, and whose parents taught college. Now she appreciates just how critical the school is to the children. "This is their lifeline really," she says. "They know they'll be fed, loved and everything else in this school...