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...inspector from Harvard’s Environmental Health & Safety department visits HUDS premises regularly “to monitor our sanitation and safety and ensure that individuals are following established protocols,” according to Martin...
...secret nuclear reactor. As a doctor rushed among the injured, he paused to open the jacket of one severely wounded man and found that he was wearing an explosives vest. The victim was a second suicide bomber, who was also supposed to blow himself up. Says Chief Inspector Kobi Mor, "When I arrived at the area, one of the people told me that there was a terrorist who was still alive. I pulled out my gun and saw him reaching towards his explosives belt. I fired at the terrorist...
...moments before the scheduled start of a rally by lawyers protesting the rule of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. Witnesses described to AFP a scene of carnage and mayhem, with dead and wounded scattered among debris and body parts across the square. "The target was the police force," Punjab Police Inspector General Nasim Ahmed told reporters at the scene. "Today's bombing was to demoralize the Punjab police, but it will not. They have given their lives while performing their duty...
...Pentagon is investigating whethersome of the 190,000 weapons the U.S. military lost track of while training Iraqi troops were peddled on the black market by American soldiers and contractors, federal law-enforcement and congressional sources tell TIME. In recent weeks, Claude Kicklighter, the Pentagon's inspector general, has privately told lawmakers that the Defense Criminal Investigative Service has launched a probe into whether U.S. military and civilian contractors intercepted up to 110,000 AK-47 assault rifles and 80,000 pistols intended for Iraqi security forces in 2004 and '05 to sell on the Iraqi black market...
...Mandarin Dress, Chen has retreated further than ever from day-to-day policing, and, perhaps inevitably, the novel's crime plot often gets enjoyably lost in a thicket of Chinese history, literature and food. Yet Qiu also adeptly follows the genre's conventions and, when Inspector Chen's investigation gains momentum, the mystery of the women in the red dresses predictably returns to a buried crime from the Cultural Revolution: the sins of the nation's past revisited upon the present. Already, Qiu says, he's at work on the next novel in the series, which will...