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...appears to be a college student, wearing a sweatshirt and jeans. On nights like tonight, when he's working undercover and everything is okay, he can pass an entire shift without being noticed. But last week, a drug dealer learned the hard way not to sell drugs under the nose of HUPD's plainclothes unit...
...managers gave one another fits. "They told me to grow hair instead of having my favorite short haircuts. They told me I should not drive sport-utility vehicles--but I don't fit in a regular car. Finally I said, 'Maybe you want me to pierce my ears and nose, paint my cheeks, use lipstick and makeup? Look, the people who vote for me see me every day as I am. I don't have to pretend to make them like...
...flipping in sequined bathing suits. But as has too often been noted, it's not a sport. In fact, the sport has become so defensive since it got its Saturday Night Live lashing in the 1980s that its website, usasynchro.org has a page titled "What's Up with the Nose Clip, Hair Gel & Makeup?" Syncher Carrie Barton, 24, doesn't flinch at explaining the blue eye shadow. "The makeup enables judges to see expressions on our faces. If we're smiling during a nice piece of music or looking scary during an angry piece, that's all part...
...real worry is Amazon's debt load--which ballooned from $1.5 billion at the end of 1999 to $2.1 billion at the end of June--as the company continues to burn money. Amazon stock has nose-dived $50 since the year began, from about $89. Most employees' stock options are stuck below the price at which they were issued. "My mom calls me up and says, 'My God, David, is everything O.K.?'" says Amazon senior vice president David Risher, laughing...
...regulations lead to lots of violations. A recent Navy survey found that 62% of U.S. submarines stored flammable liquids improperly, increasing the chance of a fire. And 57% of them had nonapproved multi-outlet power strips. More than 30% of the subs were missing basic lifesaving equipment--such as nose clips, whistles and fluorescent sea markers--that sailors would need if they had to escape from their submarine individually...