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...original version of this article incorrectly included former Pentagon Inspector General Joseph Schmitz as one of the number of Bush administration IGs who "have been forced to resign under a cloud as a result of bipartisan pressure, often because of bald incompetence or gross interference with the IG mission." While at least one Democrat and one Republican senator were raising questions about Schmitz's job performance at the time of his resignation in September of 2005, Schmitz had in fact conveyed to the Secretary of Defense his decision to step down a year before. Moreover in October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Federal Watchdogs Under Fire | 11/6/2007 | See Source »

...complaints. In October, Amy Todd told the council she called the hotline after having caught or found dead some 9 rats. She said she was “very impressed by the city’s initial response to the problem,” but after an inspector found no points of entry for the rodents around the outside of her building, she said the city washed its hands of the affair. “Rats began coming in again, and I called the rodent hotline again, but I was told that at this point, there was nothing the city...

Author: By Nicholas K. Tabor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Residents critique rodent hotline, seek more regulation of leaf blowers | 11/4/2007 | See Source »

Lucky for these men, they have an array of devices to choose from. That wasn't the case 20 years ago, when R. Wayne Griffiths, a construction inspector whom some consider the granddaddy of foreskin restoration, jury-rigged a system out of two ball bearings, which he taped to his penis to regrow the skin in a year and a half. That was the prototype for Foreballs, which he now sells for $130 a pop. Griffiths' invention has been joined over the years by about a dozen competitors, which use tape, tension, suction, weights and straps to gently coax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Uncircumcision Debate | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...building a $63 million container port that's set to open in a few years' time, replacing the current port, which is itself only three years old. "Because of China, we have been able to breathe life back into Chiang Saen," says Ratchaphol Ornnim, the local chief customs inspector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bend in The River | 8/30/2007 | See Source »

...Inspector General's report declassified on Monday makes it painfully clear: We missed 9/11 because no one in Washington talks to each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Washington Missed 9/11 | 8/24/2007 | See Source »

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