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...missing opium could be making its way to these growing markets, which may not yet be showing up on U.N. drug-consumption figures. "Some of the missing opium might also be lost during smuggling or processing, or be stashed everywhere from Kandahar to Turkey - even Western Europe," says Paul Smyth, head of the Operational Studies Program of the Royal United Services Institute in London. Still, few law-enforcement and drug officials believe these factors would explain all the missing opium, leaving the Taliban's intentions for its stockpiles a mystery...
...final product is a hyperefficient 26-gate, Y-shaped hub. According to Rich Smyth, head of redevelopment for JetBlue, the terminal is located in a 78-acre corner of Kennedy airport, a swath large enough to allow for the optimal "placing of aluminum" - industry slang for maneuvering airplanes. There are double taxiing lanes feeding into the terminal's gates, enabling arriving planes to approach jetways without waiting for departing planes to clear the path. Architects installed cleaning-supply closets at the gates to assist flight crews in maintaining a fast 30-minute plane turnaround time, and JetBlue hopes that each...
...excusable and inexcusable ignorance.” “Not knowing something that you had no way of knowing is different from not knowing something because you hadn’t bothered to find out,” he said. Kennedy school research fellow Katya F. Smyth ’93 countered that there may not be a chance to make this distinction. “In environments of extreme resource scarcity, all anyone sees is that you screwed up,” she said. “There may be room within an organization to parse out these...
...Much of what the British papers printed were allegations that first surfaced in Portuguese newspapers, which were having a field day of their own. But that is "absolutely not" a defense in British libel law, says Michael Smyth, a partner at international law firm Clifford Chance. Adds Beckett: "There's a notion that if you repeat a lie from a foreign newspaper it's somehow okay. But most media lawyers will tell you it's still a bloody...
...Smyth says the settlement, though huge and "highly unusual," wasn't unprecedented. The McCanns say the money will go to the fund they set up to help find Madeleine. It's possible, Smyth says, the newspaper group decided the cost of the penalty was worth the "commercial advantage they received for obsessively covering every twist and turn...