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...Whitacre made a fateful decision. "I did not feel comfortable lying to the FBI," Whitacre said. Instead, he blurted the truth to special agent Brian Shepard, "a very trustworthy guy" who ran the Decatur office. Whitacre soon agreed to carry a recorder hooked to his inside coat pocket while working in the office and to tote a briefcase rigged with a taping device to sessions between ADM representatives and those of other companies. He also tipped the FBI to meetings where prices might be discussed with representatives of other companies so the agents could videotape the proceedings. "It's amazing...
...Disney-MGM Studio theme park in Florida, Eisner noticed that a spangle from the costume of one of the 1,200 dancers had fallen on the red carpet. He waited till the cameras had passed, then darted out, picked up the spangle and put it in his tuxedo pocket. At Disney, neatness counts. So, for the chairman and ceo, does a twin obsession for the big picture and the smallest, shiniest detail...
...plan would leave the Bosnian Muslims with Sarajevo, the central core of Bosnia, the Bihac pocket and the area near Krajina. Gorazde, the remaining "safe area" in the east that NATO pledged itself to protect three weeks ago, would probably be allowed to pass into the hands of the Bosnian Serbs. The Muslims would be offered military training and arms, as well as a significant commitment of U.S. ground troops and air power to protect their boundaries from Serb encroachment. The ground troops, up to 25,000 of them, would be "peace enforcers" with liberal rules of engagement. They would...
...described by police as heroin addicts with full-blown AIDS, have carried out dozens of heists. Said a police spokesman: "They know they can't be imprisoned, so they take no precautions...They robbed the last bank in full view of the security cameras, armed only with a pocket knife...
...exams starting at age 40. "The problem for patients," saysTIME's Janice Castro, "is that if there is no scientific basis for early mammography, insurance companies will refuse to pay for it. Any woman who feels she needs it may have to pay for it out of her own pocket." A mammography costs...