Word: handler
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Hepatitis A is the one you hear about when it strikes at restaurants, picnics or other large gatherings. Neither blood borne nor generally fatal, it's easily transmitted by an infected food handler. Washing your hands after going to the bathroom and before eating can help prevent its spread. There's also an effective vaccine...
...They could thwart the security by having a baggage handler put the material aboard the plane. That link is being investigated,” he said...
...Yehuda Edri of Unit 504, which runs the Israeli army's West Bank network of Palestinian informants, died when a collaborator he had gone to meet outside Bethlehem shot him. Military intelligence changed its procedures to match the Shin Bet, where bodyguards search the collaborator before he meets his handler. Still, only three agents have been killed by collaborators during meetings in the past few years. The collaborators aren't so lucky. They average three years before they are discovered by their compatriots. Then either they are killed by vigilantes or they flee to Israel. During the first intifadeh...
...money that turns Palestinians into informants. It doesn't take very much. Collaborators who have confessed to Arafat's police say they often get as little as $50 for each meeting with a handler. But the desperate economic conditions of the intifadeh, during which unemployment has risen to more than 60%, favor the Israeli recruiters. Despite the sympathy Palestinian court officials feel for the economic straits that push people into collaboration, there is no quarter given at the swift trials in State Security Court...
...minister grabbed a black sun hat and used it to encourage the lion out. It jumped at the hat and tore it to shreds. By this stage we were all getting very nervous. The lion ran into a thicket of bamboo and the minister shouted something at the lion handler who disappeared for a few moments before reappearing with, tucked under his arm in the manner of a surfboard, a dead, stuffed lion. This is the one that didn't make it, the minister told us. In fact, the live lion had more than a little to do with...