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...tapped to run a 1,000-employee aircraft-engine parts plant in Wilmington, N.C. At 40, she led the integration into GE of Greenwich Aviation Services, a $1.6 billion company that the larger firm had just acquired. Two years ago, Immelt and his successor at GE Medical, Joe Hogan, persuaded Mellor to move her family to the division's suburban Milwaukee, Wis., headquarters...
...addition to paying for the growth of the faculty, the campaign allowed for the renovation and expansion of the school’s physical plant, improvements to the school’s financial aid and the broadening of its curriculum...
...implemented, in the long-term the dirtiest and least efficient factories can continue polluting at current levels while making only those improvements that will increase their profits. The law is also destructive because it allows some smokestacks and machines to increase their emissions as long as the manufacturing plant overall remains below limits. In addition, changes to the Emissions Calculation Test Methodology will allow factories to use the highest-polluting 24-month period in the preceding decade as a measure of their actual emissions—making it easy to portray future emissions as a reduction, even if they...
FALLUJAH II At this chlorine and phenol plant, Iraq produced nerve agents like mustard gas. The plant was bombed during the Gulf War. Afterward, U.N. inspectors destroyed the remaining ingredients and equipment. Since then, the CIA says, the facility has upgraded equipment and expanded chlorine output...
...Instead of plutonium, the fissile material for atomic weapons can also be enriched uranium. (That's how the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was made.) In a report to Capitol Hill staffers in the U.S. last week, the CIA said Pyongyang in 2001 started seeking materials to build a production plant to turn out enriched uranium in large quantities. If the facility comes online in two or three years, as the spy agency suggests it could, North Korea could have enough weapons-grade uranium for two or more bombs a year, according...