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...document reviewed by TIME raises serious questions about whether the government has set the bar too low and allowed plant operators to skimp on security. Many guards working in nuclear plants and some senior security experts working for the U.S. government say the defenses facilities rely on are too meager to thwart an assault by a force the size of the one al-Qaeda put together when it attacked the U.S. on 9/11--Mohammed Atta's band of 19 hijackers. "The NRC and the nuclear power industry," says a senior U.S. antiterrorism official, "are today where the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration...
That defense coasted through its final three outings, blanking Columbia, limiting two-time defending champion Pennsylvania to a meager 10 points, and holding archrival Yale to just a field goal to cap off the second most successful season by any of Murphy’s Harvard defenses. (Only his 1997 Crimson, which allowed 123 points—11 fewer than the 2004 incarnation—was more effective...
Without the reliable standbys of frat row or cheap bars, the relatively meager social offerings on campus splinter even further, decentralizing the undergraduate community as students scatter in search of the perfect party, or really, any party at all. “Harvard is built much more upon [students] finding their own niches,” Aditya H. Sanghvi ’06 says...
...Collective to Loker Pub Nights to individual Houses host student bands most weeks. And alcohol at Final Clubs and in-room parties is even cheaper than one dollar a draft. Without novelty but still sporting a hefty price tag, the Afterparty turned into a financial sinkhole that benefited a meager number of Harvard students. The lesson to be learned seems to be that, at least in recent memory, the UC is at its best spending a ton of money on blowout concerts or spending almost nothing on small, unique events like Movie Nights—less than $500, more than...
...type of statistical analysis used by the A’s and examined in Moneyball produced a winning franchise with a comparatively meager payroll. As players’ salaries and owners’ expenditures skyrocketed, finding undervalued assets became a key focus of all baseball executives...