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...Gao Xingjian (China...
...WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE REST OF US: Gao's novels, "Soul Mountain" and "One Man's Bible," wowed the judges with their "uninhibited mutations and grotesque symbolic language of dreams" and "distinct images of contemporary society." If this sounds like your cup of (green) tea but you have had a hard time finding Chinese literature in Western bookstores or libraries, this Nobel could open the floodgates...
...GAO isn't just worried about "sensitive" nations; it concluded that scientists traveling to countries like Britain and France are at risk too, and recommended that all travel requests by, scientists be reviewed by the DOE. Maybe every time a scientist wants to leave the country, he should have to take Richardson along...
...Clearly, this is very embarrassing, and very serious," says TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon. "The system is only as strong as its weakest link, and if perimeter guards aren't trained well enough to protect federal buildings, we're got a serious problem." While the GAO interlopers sidestepped the usual rounds of questioning by mimicking the bearing of law enforcement officials, there is no reason to think a sophisticated terrorist group couldn't do exactly the same, says Shannon - sending an average-looking guy with an average-sounding accent and a reasonable facsimile of an ID into CIA headquarters...
Officials claim the security fiasco isn't as bad as it sounds; they insist the intruders, who at one point were left unsupervised (still holding their briefcases) in the CIA building, were never in contact with any classified material. Only by choice, it would seem, when one considers that GAO agents were allowed to roam freely through the office suites of Attorney General Janet Reno and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. And while neither official was present during this particular encroachment, their absence was due to luck, rather than security measures. Predictably, federal security officials claim that reports...