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...they have an obligation to try to stop it." GENERAL PETER PACE, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, correcting Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's assertion at a press conference that troops witnessing prisoner abuse had no obligation to physically stop the abuse, only to report...
...Mexico official says the state is prepared to shoulder a big chunk of the $200 million tab to build a spaceport because it will bring in an estimated $500 million in annual revenues. In addition to Virgin Galactic, the site will host X Prize founder Peter Diamandis' annual cup and his Rocket Racing League (think NASCAR at 5,000 ft. up). Even NASA may send some business out West. The agency last week completed a study on creating incentives for private industry to develop a way to ferry people and goods to the international space station so NASA can focus...
...peak of his notoriety, some folks called him, inevitably, an international man of mystery; others, the death merchant. He was the subject of the 1986 best seller Manhunt: the Dramatic Pursuit of a CIA Agent Turned Terrorist, by Peter Maas. The former Marine, 77, stands 6 ft. 4 in. tall and was someone to be reckoned with. But Edwin Wilson's roller-coaster ride as a freelance spy flew off the rails in 1982, when he was lured out of Libya in a sting operation conducted by U.S. marshals. He then was convicted in a series of sensational trials...
...industry that is producing a clean, safe, healthy product," says Stephen Kay, spokesman for the International Bottled Water Association. He notes that bottled water accounts for less than 1% of the groundwater used every year. Irrigation is by far the biggest user. "That's true but irrelevant," says Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, a water research group in Oakland, Calif. Any large groundwater withdrawal from one site risks drying up wells and wetlands in that area, he says...
...flushing it down the toilet, burning it in a trash can, burying it in the park, dumping it in the river, putting it on the back of a truck, and returning it to the company from whence it came, but it always comes back. This is what Peter Hunter (Sergio Prado ’09), his wife Francis (Caroline E. Cochin de Billy ’09), and Peter’s hapless colleague Brian Runnicles (Rory N. Kulz ’08) find when Francis orders a box of pornographic pictures, thinking she’s ordering glassware. Don?...