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...student population but has since found more of its clientele among an older crowd. With a VIP service that includes discounts on drinks, the company, which expanded into Denver in September and plans to move into at least five other cities this year, is endorsed by the Colorado State Patrol and sponsored by the likes of local beer Goliath Coors, which agreed to pay the first $20 of every ride on New Year's. But NightRiders' most effective marketing tool is a poster comparing its fees--a $15 flat rate plus $2 a mile--with the price of a single...
Safety officials patrol the library, but no library employees monitor the space during extended hours, says David Futey, Stanford’s associate director of academic computing...
...accept the consequences or attempt somehow to flee. He chose the latter option. In the wee hours of Jan. 5, 1965, having downed 10 cans of beer a few hours earlier, Jenkins, then 24, made his move. At first he stuck to his routine, taking command of a dawn patrol near the DMZ. But at about 2:30 a.m., he told his men he was going to check on something up ahead. He disappeared down a hill and never returned. It would be nearly 40 years before he would return to face the U.S. military...
...many Americans viewed Jenkins as nothing more than a traitor, particularly given his occasional appearances in Korean propaganda missives. His family had more faith. His nephew James Hyman, for one, argued vigorously for decades that Jenkins was innocent, that he must have been kidnapped on that twilight patrol. But because little information filtered out of North Korea, by the 1990s Jenkins' plight had drifted into the stuff of legend. He had become a curious cold-war footnote, presumed by many to be dead. Only in 1996 did a Pentagon report state that it suspected there were at least four American...
Will the bill stop terrorists at the border? It requires 10,000 more border-patrol guards and 4,000 more immigration and customs agents over five years. It also orders improvements in air-cargo and cruise-ship security. But the measures are "meaningless without the dollars to back them up," says Democratic Representative David Obey. So far, Congress has been stingy about paying for them...