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...internal troubles. Within the past year, he says, he put the bureau's 24 special agents in charge on notice that he would be watching closely to ensure they dispense disciplinary action consistently and fairly, but he was not satisfied with the results. Now he is about to launch a five-member professional review committee that will examine every internal investigation and vote on the discipline required. He also established eight peer groups to give black agents, female agents and six other subgroups--including white males--a clear channel for venting grievances...
...week, privately telling friends that "no one is cowed or bowed" at ADM and publicly pledging the company's cooperation with the FBI. The scrutiny of ADM has prompted a sense of poetic justice in some members of the Chicago Board of Trade, as ADM helped FBI agents launch a 1989 sting that led to several commodities traders being convicted on fraud and racketeering. "There is a lot of snickering because ADM has finally got its ass caught in a sling," said a board member of the Board of Trade. "There is just this whole sweet irony of their getting...
...doctors and shortened hospital stays. Unlicensed "care partners" have been hired to take over some of the more routine duties of higher-paid registered nurses. And in a kind of if-you-can't-lick-'em-join-'em move, UCLA is purchasing Santa Monica Hospital in order to launch its own managed-care network. It is also cutting deals with local HMOS -- for example, to perform all transplant surgery for subscribers to the giant Kaiser Permanente plan in Southern California...
...Russian programs complement each other nicely. Russia has vastly more experience with long-term human space flight, and thanks to its unsophisticated but highly reliable boosters, its launch rate is more successful than that of any other country. The U.S., on the other hand, is better at electronics and engineering--which is why Russia's version of the space shuttle is rusting in a warehouse, never having carried a human into space...
...Cosmodrome, furthermore, is deteriorating rapidly from the harsh desert climate, from neglect and from outright theft and vandalism. Leaky roofs allow rainwater to flood the interiors of assembly buildings, and some of the launching pads are no longer usable. "People steal anything, even copper cable or sheet metal from the roofs of buildings," reports Sergei Leskov, a space correspondent for Izvestia. Last year a supply rocket reached Mir with part of its complement of food missing--evidently looted on the ground by launch crews. The danger is not so much of an accident, say U.S. space experts...