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...HEAR SENIOR WRITER ERIC Pooley talk, just about anyone could have produced this week's investigative report on a shocking pattern of safety lapses at a nuclear power plant in Connecticut. "Basically," says Pooley, with characteristic modesty, "it was just a classic whistle-blower tale." No big deal...
Permit us to disagree. It's a rare journalist who has the energy and persistence to unravel a story as tangled as this one. And Pooley, says chief of correspondents Joelle Attinger, "is one of the best I've ever seen. He has unlimited curiosity, and a remarkable sense of whether a source is credible...
...also has an appetite for tough assignments. On graduating from Brown University in 1981, Pooley headed for East Germany and began reporting on anticommunist dissident groups. Although he had no affiliation with any news organization, papers back home, including the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Providence Journal, picked up his dispatches...
...When Pooley returned to the U.S. in 1982, he joined New York magazine as a fact checker. Within five years he was a senior editor, and he went on to report and write two dozen cover stories on topics ranging from police corruption to kids who carry guns. In 1993 he became the magazine's political columnist...
...reduce the amount of information that walks out the door, companies are enforcing nondisclosure agreements that prevent workers from taking secrets with them to a new job. It is not easy. Points out California Attorney James Pooley: "The most difficult area the courts have to grapple with is the distinction between your ideas and the company's property." Texas Instruments sued ten employees who left to start Compaq Computer, even though the Compaq machine, a portable that works like an IBM Personal Computer, does not use the same operating systems or software as the T.I. machines. Compaq retaliated with...