Word: reporter
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...agency often dispatches a special countersurveillance unit, nicknamed the snapshot team, which will sit in the embassy, wearing night-vision goggles from dusk to dawn, and peer out windows to spot terrorists casing the building. No snapshot team was dispatched to Nairobi. Instead, the station sent out another warning report: Ahmed is probably fabricating the story, but he could be telling the truth, or he could be approaching the embassy to check its security...
...kind of report embassy security officers detest. A warning that tells you everything and nothing. Nevertheless, extra guards were posted at the front and back of the building, and nervous security officers convinced their ambassador, Prudence Bushnell, to fire off a letter to Albright warning that the embassy was vulnerable to car bombs. But Nairobi's remained low on the priority list of embassies due for major security upgrades...
Inspection reports from 1995 and 1996 obtained by TIME reveal that a wide variety of active molds, including Stachybotrys and Penicillium, continued to grow inside the building, alongside bacterial levels that were 200 times as great as OSHA's suggested "contamination threshold." Yet the '96 report, prepared by Crawford Risk Control Services for Southwest's insurance company, rated airborne spore counts inside the building as "normal" compared with those outside. Reviewing this record, Dr. David Straus of Texas Tech University's Health Sciences Center observed, "There's nothing normal about Stachybotrys. It produces a bad toxin. That...
...inspector who spoke to TIME says a number of workers came up to him during his inspection, telling him about their health problems. "We've never discouraged communication," maintains Southwest spokeswoman Hardage. Yet the same inspector described efforts on the part of management to get him to alter his report so as to make the building look "less bad." Hardage says this never happened...
Some teachers have risked greater confrontation. A Florida woman who teaches social studies to high school seniors is currently in a lawsuit against her school board, seeking the right to use without restrictions an even more contemporary book: The Starr Report. In Rhode Island last June eighth-grade English teacher Brian Cabral was verbally attacked by his principal over a vulgarity in Go Ask Alice, a 1971 novel dealing with drug addiction. The principal conceded he had not read the whole book, which tends to be the case in most book challenges, and Cabral was ultimately cleared in a committee...