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...interceptors by 2011, including 10 in Europe - the Czech Republic and Poland are likely sites - oriented toward any threat from Iran. While the system generally isn't on full alert - meaning ready to fire its interceptors - Pentagon officials said last week the system had been cranked up to monitor, and if necessary, respond to, a possible North Korean launch headed toward...
...doing so again now. The script is ever the same: the White House asserts it is the protector of our security; the press maintains it is the guardian of our liberty. * The stories in the New York Times and other newspapers about the government's highly classified program to monitor bank records have provoked outrage from the White House. President George W. Bush called them "disgraceful" and said the revelations caused "great harm" to America. Vice President Dick Cheney said the press had "made the job of defending against further terrorist attacks more difficult...
Thank you for shining a worldwide light on the crisis in Lascaux, France [June 19]. Clearly, the cave and its irreplaceable paintings are still at grave risk. An international group of experts in cave art and conservation should be allowed to monitor and report to the world on the cave and its health. Lascaux is an expression of the earliest experience of being human. The cave's discovery in 1940 redefined what was known about human beings' creative development and ability to construct image from abstract thought. This critical leap and its resulting tangible evidence is invaluable to understanding global...
...have called on the sites to set more boundaries for interactions between users, and this week Congress is scheduled to hold two days of hearings on how to make the Internet safe for kids. Executives who operate these sites acknowledge the concerns but say they lack the ability to monitor millions of daily exchanges and can't even verify members' ages. "There is no technology or national system that exists that allows us or any Internet company to verify the identity of people online," says Hemanshu Nigam, MySpace's chief security officer...
...against Northern Securities eventually landed at the Supreme Court, and Roosevelt won a narrow but crucial victory that opened the way for more aggressive use of the Sherman Antitrust Act in other cases. He also established a Department of Commerce and Labor, which included a Bureau of Corporations to monitor the budding monopolies. Roosevelt endlessly reassured Big Business that he intended merely to keep an eye on its conduct. But he let it be known that he meant business too. Only "the corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government, he once said. Then...