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...serial rapist from the man in the office cubicle next to him? Society has tried to weed these people out with tougher prison sentences and sex-offender registry laws, but people are still dying horrible deaths and living brutalized lives. Only those convicted show up on the government's radar screen. The rest go undetected...
...long as Kendall is in charge, it may be a while before anyone knows the answer. Kendall operates so far below the radar that when the President's lawyer dealt Starr his most significant setback, it took nearly a month before word got out of the judge's chambers. Even Clinton's own strategists had no inkling that something serious had happened until last Tuesday morning, when White House counsel Charles Ruff warned them that the reporters covering the comings and goings of grand-jury witnesses were likely to notice some extra activity that day on the fifth floor...
...Instead the agency compiles a file on the individual, entering the name into a computer. And unless more threats are made--or the person shows up for a White House tour--no more action is taken. The vast majority of the Russell Westons who come across the Secret Service radar screen every year--and there are dozens--are never more than names in a database reserved mostly for cranks and crazies...
Pentagon sources have told CNN that the missile a U.S. F-16 fired on Iraq on Tuesday did indeed miss the radar station by some 11 miles and land in a civilian reservoir, as the Iraqis have claimed. How did a sophisticated radar-tracking missile hit water and not its target? TIME National Security correspondent Douglas Waller says that the Iraqi operator would have merely sent "a squirt" of radar: enough to set off the British planes' alarms but not enough for the F-16's missile to draw a good bead on the source...
...incidents and urged scientists to overcome the fear of ridicule and research the phenomenon. While the panel's report, to be published Monday, emphasizes that it has found no convincing evidence of extra-terrestrial intelligence, it recommends the study of significant physical evidence such as burns, radiation, radar images and the recurring appearance of strange lights. Skeptical? Well, you may want to remember that before the study of meteorites began in earnest, scientists dismissed the idea of rocks falling from the sky as folkloric foolishness...