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...February 2002, Milwaukee, Wis. Incident: A local television reporter passed a briefcase containing 10 banned items through the Milwaukee County Courthouse x-ray security checkpoint a total of 12 times in two days. A videotape showed a security officers looking away from the monitor as some items went through Security: Authorities said they were shocked by the "gaping" holes in their security system...
Source: New York Times; ABC News; AP; Christian Science Monitor...
Three months after the fall of Baghdad, a grim fact of life for Bremer as well as his 600-member civilian staff and the 146,000 American soldiers is that they are still struggling to police Iraq's streets, restore electricity, fix the economy, rebuild schools, monitor local elections and nudge the country toward democracy--all while waging a counterinsurgency campaign against an increasingly brazen assortment of militants who have killed more than 30 U.S. and British soldiers in the past two months. It's not going well. In Baghdad recent attacks on infrastructure targets left the power and water...
...jellyfish with tougher flesh, was initially thought to be a whale. Experts decided it was a marine invertebrate, perhaps a giant squid, and they appealed for help in identifying the monster. Yanks Going In? LIBERIA The West African regional body, ECOWAS, agreed to send 3,000 peacekeeping troops to monitor the fragile week-long cease-fire between the government and rebel groups as U.S. President George W. Bush - on the eve of his first trip to Africa - considered whether to send American forces to join them. Liberian President Charles Taylor offered once more to step down, but only once foreign...
...look at Larry King while you shave (ouch!), or read your e-mail while brushing your teeth. That, at any rate, is what Philips thinks you might want to do in your bathroom. The Dutch electronics company is launching a mirror that triples up as TV screen and Internet monitor. Plug in a laptop or video feed and the polarized mirror lets through close to 100% of the light from the LCD screen behind. Philips says its first buyers later this year will likely be Dutch hotels, which will also use them for pay-per-view movies and settling...