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...employ 10,675 émigrés from Communist countries who have been cleared by security agencies or are in the process of being cleared. Among those are 121 Soviet émigrés with top-secret clearance, giving them access to information that the Pentagon says can cause "exceptionally grave damage to national security...
George Orwell does a lot of rolling over in his grave, but this time he may be in danger of rolling out. A new gadget isn’t just smart. It may be telepathic...
...emerged that Saddam Hussein had skimmed some $2 billion from the $65 billion program. Last April Annan asked Paul Volcker, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve, to investigate those issues. In February his panel released its first report, accusing the head of the oil-for-food program of "grave conflict of interest" for steering lucrative oil contracts to friends and accepting cash payments. Volcker's second report, issued last week, focused in detail on Annan...
...there is little evidence of one. Ten years ago, Pope John Paul II signed the encyclical Evangelium Vitae, which deemed euthanasia a "crime that no human law can claim to legitimize." "There is no obligation in conscience to obey such laws," the encyclical reads. "Instead, there is a grave and clear obligation to oppose them by conscientious objection." Many Europeans, though, seem content to leave harrowing decisions like those in the Schiavo case to the consciences of families and physicians...
...clogged up," says Athens' Deputy Mayor Katerina Katrivanou. According to a private study, 80% of the greater Athens region's 29 cemeteries cannot take any more burials. The problem is partly a result of a macabre Greek tradition. Burial plots are rented for three years, after which the grave is dug up to check that the body has fully decomposed. If it has, the plot can be released for a fresh burial; if not, the lease is extended for another year. After that, the remains are reinterred in shallower or mass graves to open space for other burials. Bodies...