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...police stop the sniper's blue Chevy Caprice for a "minor infraction" and scan the tag number. It comes up clean. Two hours later, a witness reports seeing a dark-hued, perhaps burgundy or cranberry Caprice leaving the scene of the day's fifth and final murder. Police post a lookout...
...Staff seems content to compromise the welfare of Cambridge students for the sake of cutting costs. The students in question benefit tremendously from their small class size, which should be maintained regardless of the short-term budgetary implications. The $1 million price tag is negligible in the context of tens of millions of dollars in the Cambridge Public Schools budget, and a temporary deficit for a year would be far better than the confusion, aggravation and demoralization that would occur from consolidating and downsizing programs that have been created to benefit Cambridge students’ various learning styles...
Which clues are real? It's not enough to "bag and tag" everything at a crime scene. The trick is to figure out what's important. If, for example, a wife is suspected of killing her husband in their bedroom, virtually all trace evidence in the room-fibers, hairs, fingerprints-could be useless. Proving that the wife was in her own room probably won't help the case...
...idea became a reality in 1998, when the Pentagon bought its first JDAM--joint direct-attack munition--from Boeing. By scrapping complicated procurement rules for this project, the Pentagon was able to keep the price of a JDAM at $27,000, pocket change compared with the $1 million price tag on a single cruise missile like the ones used in the Gulf War. JDAM tail kits are fastened onto standard dumb bombs of varying sizes. The bomb always knows where it is, based on information it gets from the plane or, after it is dropped, from GPS. Its aluminum fins...
...that can make or break a company - and in this case broke it. In late 1997, the Belgian airline Sabena was poised to order 17 new Airbus planes, to renew and expand its fleet of 37. At the last minute, the order mysteriously doubled to 34 aircraft. The price tag would be $1 billion - five times the company's entire capital at the time. Even more surprisingly, Sabena's board of directors had neither a business plan justifying the higher number nor a watertight financing arrangement in place when they approved the deal. The order strained Sabena's already precarious...