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...eight of the abducted, including Megumi, are now dead. Most were in their 20s and 30s when they died, and North Korea claims each succumbed to either disease or natural disaster--two on the same day. Many Japanese are skeptical, believing the North Koreans murdered them to get rid of the evidence...
...healthier and more robust than ever, the Age 60 rule has come under a new challenge. Ten pilots have filed a petition with the FAA, claiming that the agency's establishment of the rule had nothing to do with safety but instead was a back-room deal to rid major airlines of highly paid senior pilots. The 76-page appeal, which uses previously unreleased documents obtained by the petitioners, claims that the agency has dismissed or ignored research showing that older pilots are as safe as their younger colleagues. "This is the government version of ceo fraud," says Bert Yetman...
...concede something. In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Iraq announced that after four years of blowing off inspections, it was now ready to submit to them "without conditions." That left the war camp in an awkward dilemma. Can you convince the world it needs to get rid of a bully if the bully suddenly appears to be playing nice? And it left those less than eager for an invasion with the responsibility to prove exactly what, if anything, Saddam has conceded...
...Labs for cooking up new toxins and germs are mounted on specially converted commercial trucks that cruise Iraqi highways to foil pursuers. "His weapons-of-mass-destruction capabilities are mobile," Rumsfeld said last week. "They can be hidden from inspectors no matter how intrusive." Hardest of all to get rid of are the notebooks and computer hard drives filled with biochem recipes and nuclear designs that Saddam's scientists have compiled over the years. Even if all of Saddam's germ factories and the weapons made in them were eradicated, he would still possess the knowledge needed to rebuild after...
...criterion is that if a bike is loaded with dust or the chain is rusted solid, then I cut it off and get rid of it,” says Coveney, who cut about 10 bikes off the Lowell racks prior to school opening...