Word: probed
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...they're calling the investigation PENTTBOM, for Pentagon Twin Towers Bombing, and running the probe from inside the agency's high-tech Special Information and Operations Center, a 40,000-sq.-ft. command post in Washington where FBI Deputy Director Tom Pickard supervises the 4,000 agents and 3,000 analysts and support people working the case. Pickard's team had received 46,125 tips by last Saturday, which they were farming out to field offices and 31 other agencies working with them on the case. Pickard, 51, a native of Queens, faces the colossal task of shaping the information...
...hundred and fifteen people are now wanted for questioning in a widening probe into the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Thursday morning, Justice Department officials confirmed that one of those people, 34-year-old Nabil Al-Marabh was arrested outside Chicago...
Each mentor contacts eight to 10 incoming students and their parents. They probe for key information: whose parents just got divorced, whose family is having trouble paying tuition and who is petrified of sorority rush (42% of Jewell students join fraternities and sororities). The mentors answer questions like "Should I bring a microwave?" or "What's the reading load?" They also find out little details from Mom and Dad, like their daughter's favorite candy. The mentors leave the favorite candy in front of their charge's door that first day on campus, with other goodies like a William Jewell...
Tuesday afternoon at a hotel in downtown Atlanta, NASCAR officials, stung by criticism of their handling of the investigation into driver Dale Earnhardt?s death six months ago, finally revealed the voluminous results of a $1 million probe into the fatal Daytona 500 crash...
...Yang Rong, the Confucian tutor to the Emperor who argued for rolling back the power of eunuch adventurers like Zheng He. The Confucians won; China wouldn't emerge again as a naval force until the past decade or so, as it began to build up a sizable fleet, probe disputed islands like the Spratlys and project a presence in Asia's sea-lanes...