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...contracted plane crashed in 2004, leaving three United States soldiers dead. In a successful suit filed by the families of the soldiers claiming that the contractors were in violation of multiple laws, four contracting firms were named: Aviation Worldwide Services LLC, Presidential Airways Inc., STI Aviation Inc., and Air Quest Inc. According to the report, these are all subsidiaries of the Prince Group, the military contracting arm of which is Blackwater USA.Given that Blackwater employees have a history of disregard for the law and an overly aggressive stance when performing their jobs abroad, it is disappointing?...
...these numbers? Workplace drug tests can't catch all drug abuse. The tests have a fleeting detection period - drugs must be consumed within the last few days or even hours for positive results, according to Dr. Barry Sample, Director of Science and Technology for the Employer Solutions Division at Quest Diagnostics, a workplace drug-testing company...
...poured heart and soul not only into such successes as The Piano and the Jurassic Park movies but also into the alluvial-schist soil of the South Island of New Zealand, where his great-grandfather settled in 1859 and where Neill helms Two Paddocks, which is dedicated to the quest for what he calls "the seductive Pinot Noir...
AFTER several of her friends died within a short period, author Madeleine L'Engle aimed to make sense of her pain by writing about the universe. Result: her iconic 1962 children's novel, A Wrinkle in Time, which follows angst-ridden adolescent Meg Murry and her brother on a quest through time and space to rescue their imprisoned father on a planet governed by the sinister Dark Thing. With its mythic struggles, biblical and literary references and themes of good and evil--Dad is saved with the one gift Dark Thing lacks, the power of love--Wrinkle was seen...
...victims, mostly older men, were easy prey in a quest that began in 1992 when Pichuzkin, then 18, says he killed a romantic rival. It was the same year that Pichuzkin's true rival, Andrei Chikatilo, the so-called "Butcher of Rostov," was tried and convicted for the murder of 53 women and children. Chikatilo, a terrifying figure who found sexual gratification in the mutilation of innocents, was the grandmaster of murder Pichuzkin sought to defeat and replace...