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...were the planners, who endowed the Freedom Tower with security features for everything from burning jet fuel to anthrax spores, unprepared for a Ryder Truck filled with explosives? Developers say the NYPD simply ambushed them with shifting demands. Police say they'd been privately raising these concerns for months before their official report. And public watchdogs say the finger-pointing itself is symptomatic of the real problem. "There's a confidence problem here, but it's not about security," says Nikki Stern, executive director of the Families of September 11. "It's about leadership...
...least two years, to when Mickelson called Woods' Nike clubs "inferior." Woods boiled. "It was a little sucker punch," says Fred Funk, this year's Players-championship winner. "That creates a bit of animosity between the guys." Mickelson apologized, but the bad blood spilled over to last fall's Ryder Cup, at which U.S. captain Hal Sutton paired Woods and Mickelson against European opponents. Although teammates, they could barely look at each other. It didn't help that Mickelson played like a Sunday hacker; when he sliced an 18th-hole drive into an impossible lie, Woods grimaced in disgust...
...director of International Rivers Network, which is based in Berkeley, California. Imhof has tracked the project for a decade and, together with the Canada-based Probe International, led a global campaign to have it halted. "Laos is repeatedly being rewarded for its failure," says Probe's policy director Grainne Ryder...
...outside. Although more than one in three Botswanan adults has the aids virus, more than 35,000 (including nine of the 12 contestants) now take antiretroviral drugs (ARVS), meaning they should live relatively normal - and long - lives. "For many people it has become a manageable chronic condition," says Brad Ryder, communications manager at the African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnership, a drug therapy program funded by U.S. drugs titan Merck and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation...
...pills’ apparent take-over. The album closes with its darkest moments and an uplifting dénouement. “Holiday” enters with the sound of a plane flying overhead, but the holiday of the title is no global jaunt. In his most affected sneer, Ryder describes a drug binge under belted-out celebratory cries of “Holiday!” Sounds of airport announcements and seagulls squawking violently lurk in the background while he claims, “We’re here to harass you / we want your pills and grass...