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While Adidas enjoyed an attractive location-with large windows facing Mass. Ave-the athletic store windows were blocked by large posters of athletes decked out in Adidas gear...
...debate over safe meat continues, the search for alternatives to costly screening procedures will no doubt go into high gear. For instance, the USDA wants us to consider irradiating our meat - zapping it with a sterilizing ray in order to kill any lurking bacteria. The process, despite its vaguely creepy space-age image, is completely safe, says Donnelly. But it has not gained acceptance from much of the public...
...Some of the steps, such as erasing computer memory units that recorded the day's mission, are relatively simple. Others - shredding the computer floppy disks containing various encryption codes - are more complicated. The most sophisticated gear - various eavesdropping and cryptographic code machines - could be kept from prying eyes by smashing it with hammers and hatchets aboard the aircraft. Or it may have been pushed out of the plane's cargo door in weighted bags, in sort of a "Sailors Meet the Sopranos" moment, while still over the ocean, Navy officials say. Additional papers and tapes could have been destroyed, probably...
...Once the crew realized it was going to land in China, it began implementing its classified destruction plan, which parcels out the plane's most sensitive gear for erasure or destruction by individual crew members...
...crew should have had sufficient time to perform such tasks: Armed Chinese troops didn't come aboard the plane until about a half an hour after the plane landed, some 90 minutes after the midair collision, Pentagon officials estimate. But now, with much of the gear destroyed but the crew's memories and knowledge intact, comes the next chapter. U.S. military personnel are instructed only to reveal their name, rank and serial number to interrogators, and Pentagon officials doubt the Chinese have asked for any more than that...