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...wall overshadows a more noteworthy ‘body fluid clean-up kit’ (the contents of which are still unknown). Large metal handrails span the ceiling, lending support to students who would otherwise fall during their post-party drunkenness or the bumpy ride around campus. An imitation-leather strip of padding rests above the shuttle’s exit to protect taller students from injuring their heads. The red, plush upholstery on the gray seats almost matches the four no-smoking signs that breathe life into the shuttle wall’s mundane stretches of white paint...
...American intelligence community's single greatest failing is its lack of good "humint"--human intelligence, the dirty, diligent, shoe-leather penetration of terror networks. The humint void is behind the CIA's failure to pick up advance word of the Sept. 11 attacks, and it makes ferreting out bin Laden especially hard. "We don't have real spies anymore who go out and get dirt under their nails," admits an Administration official. The CIA rolled up most of its regional networks when the Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan in 1989. Its old sources dried up, and the Executive Order that...
...really amazing to see how the professors operate in the evening,” Huff said, turning in her tall, leather bar chair. “Many of them are much more accessible and open in the evenings because they have a sense that they are teaching classes geared toward their own colleagues since so many of the extension school students are working professionals themselves. They have a laid back attitude that a lot of students just don’t get to see in the more formal atmosphere of the day school. We really have the best...
...workers struggle to identify the debris; most of it has been pulverized to powder. Pieces of leather are often mistaken for skin because here both have turned gray. When a fire fighter's body is found, "there is dead silence," says fireman Jeff Silver, 34. "All the machinery is cut off, and everybody takes their helmets off while a body bag is brought over and brothers from his station come and carry him away...
...doesnt bother us that people gawk from their mansions. It only fuels our entertainment. Tanenhaus is most proud of the fully functional, gold-framed oil painting of beagles replete with an overhead light. The pair plans to have it appraised on The Antiques Roadshow. Among other finds are a leather suitcase with wheels, clothing, and photos of a naked Middle-eastern man and his son (these photos now hang in Lis bedroom...