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Khalid also wondered whether the system was necessary, noting that government officials could obtain information about students’ courses by contacting the registrar...
Additionally, Congress should consider carefully Justice department requests to loosen the rules on wiretapping phones and computers. Currently, law enforcement must obtain a court order for each phone or computer tapped. The Justice Department argues, and we agree, that it makes much more sense to obtain a single court order to tap all of the phones and computers of a specific person. The danger is, of course, that the government will listen to other communications on a phone that a criminal may have used only once. The law must allow for quick judicial review of the wiretaps...
...efforts to keep airlines safe will only deal with one of many possible threats. The best way to prevent tragedies like that of Sept. 11 is to obtain better information about the membership and operations of terrorist organizations. Now that the nation has been shown to be vulnerable to terrorist attack on such a catastrophic scale, other groups may be waiting to carry out their own attacks, possibly with chemical, biological or other weapons that are difficult to defend against without an effective intelligence system...
Credit CEO David Neeleman, 41, for piloting JetBlue past the early disasters that typically befall fledgling carriers. For starters, Neeleman raised $160 million from investors--almost triple what other new airline entrants have managed to obtain. The hefty sum is insurance against any unforeseen cash crunch; last year start-up National Airlines veered into bankruptcy because of surging jet-fuel prices...
Roche volunteered for a trial in which she took hexamethonium, a compound not currently approved by the FDA for use in humans. In these cases, the FDA requires that researchers obtain the agency's approval before administering such compounds. But because of the huge number of academic trials and the accompanying paperwork, the FDA had got into the habit of quietly discouraging universities from applying for approval, assuming that safety issues could be dealt with by the universities. Then, in 1999, the feds abruptly cracked down, stopping human research at Duke University Medical Center. One infraction they cited: the improper...