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...limitation is the number of guards. The total protecting the nation's nuclear plants is 8,000, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), the industry's lobbying arm. Numbers at specific locations aren't available, but that works out to roughly 80 per reactor. Broken down into four shifts, that's an average of 20 guards available to work at any one time. U.S. security officials at the Pentagon and the DOE say that is too small a number to take on a motivated group of suicidal terrorists who probably would be outfitted with weapons deadlier than the rifles...
...Coast too. A pair of California pharmacy students and a friend, two of whom face a criminal trial next month, allegedly logged on to computer terminals at UCLA's biomedical library and planted more than 500 messages on a variety of hot websites to pump up the stock of NEI Webworld Inc., a bankrupt commercial-printing firm in Dallas...
Before doing so, the feds say, they bought 97% of the company's available stock for between 5[cents] and 17[cents] a share. The students then allegedly launched a final message-board barrage over one weekend last December, falsely reporting that NEI would soon be bought out at a much higher price. On the following Monday, the stock opened above $8 and climbed to a high of $15.50. The trio quickly sold out for a combined profit of more than $363,000. NEI tanked when investors realized that no takeover was in the offing...
...catch criminals. Wednesday, federal prosecutors charged Arash Aziz-Golshani and Hootan Melamed, both 23, with conspiracy to commit securities fraud, and the two face civil charges from the SEC as well. It was a stunningly simple plan: One Monday morning, investor chat rooms were abuzz with a tip that NEI, a down-and-out commercial printing company, was about to be snapped up by a prosperous suitor. A feeding frenzy ensued, and in a few hours, NEI stock was driven up from 13 cents to more than $15. Meanwhile, back in Westwood, the two recent college grads...
After spending millions of dollars in advertising and engaging in eight debates, both Kerry and Weld have staked out different positions on taxes, welfare and crime. However, nei...