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...Some 15,000 facilities in the U.S. house toxic chemicals, and 123 of these have enough stockpiled that a leak at any one could threaten more than a million people in surrounding neighborhoods. U.S. intelligence has evidence that terror groups like al-Qaeda have eyed chemical facilities as targets; homeland security czar Tom Ridge worries there are "security deficiencies at dozens and dozens of those" facilities...
...July 16, 2001, issue of TIME Global Business. The group, which owned the yard where Lech Walesa led his worker's revolt, had shed its communist legacy to adopt market-economy practices such as product specialization and round-the-clock shifts. Now scandal at a competing shipyard may threaten Gdynia's success. The Stocznia Szczecinska shipyard, Poland's second largest shipbuilder, was forced in June to declare bankruptcy. Six of the company's former executives were arrested and charged with criminal mismanagement and fraud that led to $16 million in lost revenue. The yard's 6,000 former workers have...
...governments in the form of $3 billion in loans that don't have to be repaid if the A380 fails to turn a profit. Boeing gets indirect handouts through its lucrative defense contracts, but critics say they aren't sufficient to level the playing field, and U.S. officials occasionally threaten to punish Airbus. The political equation may be changing, though. "U.S. companies are thrilled to be a part of the A380," says Mark Sullivan of engine maker Pratt & Whitney...
...difficult task. Aside from the vehement emotions that have always accompanied segregation, the practice of assigning schools based on geographic location means that for schools to become fully integrated, cities and suburbs must first become completely multiracial. Conditions have greatly improved in the years since 1954, but demographic trends threaten to keep America’s public schools largely segregated in fact if not in law. Suburban schools supported by plentiful property taxes remain predominantly white, while schools in inner cities heavily populated by minorities are often overcrowded and underfunded...
...asking the legislature to change it, she says, may threaten the University’s autonomy...