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...August 2002, Milwaukee Wis. Incident: After a string of security breaches at county facilities, one woman used a knife to slash another person inside Milwaukee County's Criminal Justice Facility Security: Metal detectors were in place at the courthouse, and security had recently been beefed...
After the second oil shock hit America in 1979, Washington's wandering attention was focused again on energy. Following Nixon's lead, President Carter pushed development of synthetic fuels as part of his strategy to slash imports. When he signed the Energy Security Act into law in June 1980, Carter said it would "encourage production of 2 million bbl. a day of synthetic fuels by the year 1992." That didn't work either: synthetic-fuel production ended up slightly in excess of zero, and oil imports totaled 6.9 million bbl. a day that year...
...Whitman's successes - promulgating regulations that slash diesel pollution and issuing fiats forcing General Electric to clean up part of New York's Hudson River -? may eventually outlive her struggles. But White House reversals on regulating greenhouse-gas emissions and last-minute, Clinton-era rules for regulating arsenic in drinking water smashed her credibility with environmental groups early in the administration. The White House has yet to name a successor or indicate when it will decide...
...younger set about once a week. At Reno's in Webster, Texas, only sanitized versions of pop songs are allowed on the popular karaoke machine before 10 p.m. At Slate Street Billiards in Vernon Hills, Ill., minors sport T shirts featuring a beer stein with a red circle and slash, indicating that alcohol is off-limits. And in Conway, Ark., where state law prohibits kids from playing in adult billiards-only halls, Paul Loyd and Judy Potts have opened P.D.'s Billiards & Game Room, offering kid-size pool cues and imposing a rule that bans smoking by anyone under...
...Faculty Council voted to slash the proposal that Expos be an extra course requirement. And at an April meeting, the full Faculty passed two amendments, one of which allowed for the designation of specific departmental courses that could be taken in place of Core classes, and another which allowed students to “shift” a course from one Core area to another—not changing the total number of Core courses, just the distribution...