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...released report shocked the nation. The National Commission on Excellence in Education found that "the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people." Based on test scores, teaching methods and the self-preserving bureaucracy engulfing students, the commission's conclusions became a rallying cry for putting America's future first...
Sims disputed the chronology offered by arresting officers in the police report. He said the police used excessive force both in forcing him to leave the Grille and in arresting...
According to CPD spokesperson Frank T. Pasquarello-who said he had no direct knowledge of the event outside of a police report-Sims allegedly spit at and pushed the police officer, who had ejected him from the Grille earlier...
...worked on nuclear warhead design programs at Los Alamos. In 1995 U.S. intelligence officers learned that China had somehow stolen classified information about the W-88 miniaturized nuclear warhead program. The ensuing FBI investigation found Wen Ho Lee had violated a number of lab security rules, including failing to report contacts with PRC scientists -- lapses for which Department of Energy secretary Bill Richardson fired him last month. So far, the FBI has not been able to find any evidence that Lee spied for China. But if he is ever charged, his lawyers (who aren't commenting for the record) could...
...anti-virus software by tucking itself into memory reserved for various utility applications. When it strikes, it infects a computer's BIOS or "basic input/output system," a part of the machine so fundamental that a computer affected by CIH 1.2 won't even boot up. According to a Reuters report, most up-to-date antivirus software should be able to stop the virus before it strikes...