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...bribes in exchange for contracts in Iraq. An Army captain with the 10th Mountain Division was charged after allegedly soliciting a $50,000 bribe. There are now 73 investigations into $5 billion in contracts that may have been tainted by--in addition to bribes and kickbacks--rigged bids, product substitution or double billing. The latest wrinkle is the apparent disappearance of 190,000 weapons--110,000 AK-47s and 80,000 pistols--that the U.S. bought and shipped to Iraq for use by the fledgling Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005. They vanished while General David Petraeus--now commanding...
...years. Even some vintners in France, whose wine industry has been in trouble because of worldwide competition and overproduction, are experimenting with alternatives to glass. Jean-Charles Boisset, whose family business is a market leader, likens wine drinkers and their adaptability to the consumers of another once upscale product. "You squeeze mustard from a plastic bottle, when you traditionally got it from a glass bottle," he says matter-of-factly...
...means headed to the Davidson Academy. But I am a product of a school system that has allowed me to take advanced classes with older students. Schools should offer bright students the option of such accelerated placement throughout their school years, although in limited instances in the first few grades...
...definitely take our critics really seriously—our goal is to put out the best product we can," she said. "Our belief—and our readers have certainly shown us that they agree—more information is better...
...Last year the CSIRO structural biologist took a batch of crystals, the product of months of painstaking work, to a synchrotron in Japan, only to discover they'd been destroyed in transit. But such disappointments, as well as the increasing difficulty of taking biological samples across security-conscious international borders, are over for Australasian scientists now that they have a latest-generation synchrotron in their backyard. So are the frustrations of traveling to facilities in the U.S. or Europe for a few days of precious beam time, then flying home to wait months for another opportunity...