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...LONG after her debut with the WNBA's Washington Mystics in 1999, six-time All-Star forward Chamique Holdsclaw, 29, was dubbed the "female Michael Jordan." The Olympic gold medalist, who plays for the Los Angeles Sparks, jolted teammates by announcing she was retiring, effective immediately. "I'm not depressed or anything," she said. "I just want to kind of kick back...
...January "IMI-1" incident could prove at least as embarrassing because it was connected with LANS board members, some of the very people responsible for fixing the security problems at Los Alamos that some critics have labeled the worst in the U.S. government. Until now the episode has remained a closely guarded secret. Since January Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman, whose department is responsible for Los Alamos, has given hours of testimony to Congress detailing security problems at the lab, without ever mentioning the January incident...
...senior U.S. official had to be pulled out of a White House meeting to hear the bad news: highly classified e-mail dealing with the composition of America's atomic weapons had illegally been sent via non-secured networks to members of the board of Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS), the company that manages America's nuclear lab in New Mexico. After it was discovered, the fact that the message had passed electronically from person to person without safeguards was quickly designated an "IMI-1" violation, the most serious breach of U.S. national security. LANS could face financial penalties...
...Bodman, deputy Energy Secretary Clay Sell and other senior officials have all given testimony since Jan. 19 about the importance of security at Los Alamos, offering assurances that improvements would be made at the leaky lab. Referring to the reams of classified Los Alamos documents found in the New Mexico trailer park last year, Lab director Michael Anastasio told lawmakers, "My board finds [this incident] totally unacceptable... They're going to hold me accountable to fix this." Even as Anastasio spoke, some of the 11 members of the LANS board that manages Los Alamos were cooperating with an investigation...
...press conference Thursday afternoon opposite the Capitol building, Sen. Mel Martinez appeared beside Democratic Senators Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Robert Menendez of New Jersey. A caravan of activists that had traveled from Los Angeles presented a million pro-immigration reform signatures to the trio. Sen. Kennedy made sure to make mention of two of the bill's main opponents, Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Jim DeMint of South Carolina. "I hope that my friend Sen. Sessions will sit down and read these letters," he said, motioning to several stacks of bound petitions at his feet. "I hope that...