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...general counsel Ray McKenna said he did not know if the White House had called anyone at the agency about the MCI (formerly known as WorldCom) matter. But agency officials only referred the matter to its division that handles suspension decisions in early June, after lawmakers, particularly Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, stepped up pressure on GSA to do something. McKenna said employees in that division are walled off from outside pressure. The decision Thursday to suspend MCI relied on earlier reports from individuals hired by the company to do internal inquiries, as well as KPMG, MCI?s outside...
...from studying people who were undergoing brain surgery or had suffered brain damage. Clearly, this is not the most convenient way to learn about the brain, especially if you want to know more about what passes for normal. Even highly detailed pictures from the most advanced computer-enhanced X-ray imaging machines could reveal only the organ's basic anatomy, not how the various parts worked together. What researchers needed was a scanner that didn't subject patients to radiation and that showed which parts of the brain are most active in healthy subjects as they perform various intellectual tasks...
...funny town names (San Diablo!). A pinwheel of inexhaustible ingenuity, he had the kids in the first film pursued by an army of giant thumbs ("I snap my fingers," says a nutty TV clown, "and my fingers snap you"), and in the second one swordfighting a pirate band of Ray Harryhausen skeletons. Here were terrific adventures that paid homage to old films while they extended...
Buffalo Soldiers could play as a cynic's version of the current U.S. occupation of Iraq, except that its tone echoes that of Sgt. Bilko and Catch-22. Ray Elwood (Joaquin Phoenix) is a wheeler-dealer stationed in Germany just before the sundering of the Berlin Wall. While his stoned fellow soldiers take a lethal joyride in a tankand the camp's defenestration rate is way too highElwood makes a pretty profit running guns, drugs and 1,000 cans of Mop & Glo to the locals. Then the plot kicks...
...January 2002, Mineapolis, Minn. Incident: A woman had a loaded gun inside her briefcase when she entered the Ramsey County Courthouse Security: Deputies working security missed the gun when they opened her briefcase and searched it by hand; it was picked up on an x-ray scanner outside a courtroom