Word: porousness
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...sightings in six other states, the Bush Administration--its hands arguably full with the war on terrorism, the Wall Street meltdown and the ongoing parade of corporate scandals--took time out last week to handle the slippery creature, dispatching Interior Secretary Gail Norton to announce plans to seal the porous U.S. borders against the importation of any more snakeheads. "These fish are like something from a bad horror movie," Norton intoned darkly last Tuesday...
...Bosnia last September, Sylvester helped uncover a plot to attack the U.S. and British embassies and then presided over the arrest and deportation to Guantanamo Bay of six Algerian-born suspects. "These are hard-core Islamic networks which are using Bosnia - because of its weak rule of law and porous borders - to prepare new attacks," Sylvester said. Charities, including those carrying out honorable programs, provide ideal cover, he said. A search of a Sarajevo office of the Saudi High Commission for Relief turned up anti-Semitic and anti-American videotapes and children's pamphlets as well as maps of Washington...
...joke, of course, was on Portugal. The Europeans went into this Cup as dark horse candidates for actually winning the entire tournament. But their sluggish strikers and porous defense against an admittedly sloppy American side quickly made mincemeat of such ambitious predictions. Afterward, Portugal's celebrated forward Luis Figo, looking visibly exhausted and nursing a chronic injury, said in subdued tones: "All I want to say is that I would like to play without feeling any pain." For his part, Portuguese coach Antonio Oliveira blamed the paltry amount of time his team had to prepare for the Cup: "Everybody knows...
...first lines of defense against terrorism are the country's borders and shores. But the U.S.'s perimeter is long and porous. The government still lacks a system for determining whether immigrants who enter legally overstay their visas, as two 9/11 hijackers did. The Immigration and Naturalization Service's new budget request includes money to hire 570 more border-patrol agents by next year, but experts think the U.S. needs to add at least twice that number. The border-security act that Bush signed last week aims to modernize the country's system of tracking those who want to enter...
...like to think of the change in the leadership tone of the ART going from one which was more hierarchical to one which is more porous, that will engage the undergraduates in a different way,” Orchard says...