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...Internet standards, Tom Hadfield is an old-timer. He went online in 1994, put together a start-up in '95, sold it in '97 and launched another in '99. In real world years, he is just...
...like to overtax himself. Bush routinely takes an hour or more each day for exercise, is out of the office by 6, keeps a light schedule on the road and starts the weekend early, on Friday afternoons. Compared with Cheney, some critics say, he looks like a part-timer...
...became known?the surfacing exercise was for the entertainment of visitors, two civilians were at the controls, the submarine crew appeared to make no effort to take survivors aboard, the search for the missing was to be concluded?the accident moved beyond tragedy. Says an Uwajima sailor, an old timer who sailed aboard an earlier Ehime Maru training vessel in the 1960s: "It is outrageous. It is totally beyond belief...
...Swire wonders whether one of those cruder timers, which he says can't be set for longer than 45 minutes, was used to bring down Pan Am 103. The more sophisticated timer the prosecutors linked to al-Megrahi and the Libyans, he says, could easily have been set to blow the plane up over the ocean, foiling efforts to trace the perpetrators. Swire says the "provenance was unusual" of the timer remnants found outside Lockerbie, thus raising again suggestions that they had been planted on the scene. He and some other families want to see politicians in power...
...confidence that you're accurate, but it's rare you find a smoking gun." In some cases, of course, a tiny bit of evidence can make all the difference. In the Pan Am 103 case, for example, it was the CIA that first identified the fragment of a timer from the bomb as implicating Libya. That set investigators on the road to the two suspects. "Without our assistance they might not have developed a case at all," says a senior intelligence official...