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...Alamos who made the same visits to China as Lee and talked to the same Chinese scientists. None were part of the investigation. But TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon reminds that none of them had left the door open to one of Los Alamos? most important barns. "He took the top-secret legacy codes and left them vulnerable," she says. "The FBI can?t prove that he delivered them to the Chinese ? Vrooman is right about that. But at the very least, he still committed an egregious offense...
...With a lot of tourists chasing a few leaves, the competition is beginning to get stiff. The Connecticut Chamber of Commerce says that everything's fine - you just might want to come by to view the trees a week or two earlier this year - and recently took out ads in 11 magazines to reinforce the message. The state of Maine will post weekly foliage updates beginning September 15. In Vermont, state officials smugly point out that the drought hasn't hit their state as hard, especially in the northern half. Meanwhile, Rhode Island, suffering through its worst summer for rain...
...largest shareholder and a writer and director, the impact of the decline was more subtle than the fall was jolting. Right out of the box, investors gave us a big market cap--in essence, a club to beat up or buy up competitors. But then they took the club away before we could start swinging. We were looking brash and predator-like--top of the food chain. Now we feel like timid prey. A chart of our stock looks like one half of the Apollo's Chariot ride at Busch Gardens--the first part, which starts...
Think again. At a labor breakfast there attended by 800 Rainbow members, Bradley extolled his own commitment to racial and economic justice, then took aim at Clinton and Gore's. "After seven years of the first two-term Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt, the number of children in poverty in America barely blipped down," he said. "One year after the Welfare Reform bill passed--which I voted against--there were 29% more children living in...deep poverty... Reducing [that number] should be the North Star for our society." The line got a big hand. But later people were curiously unmoved; they...
...Heather, there is a Burkittsville, Maryland. It's a lovely little town of some 200 souls, whose old homes, festooned with flowers and flags, make Mayberry look like Milwaukee. The good folks of Burkittsville can even handle a media frenzy, seeing as all those Blair Witch doings supposedly took place here. "I don't mind," says postmaster Larry Ott of the strangers dropping in to snap photos and buy postcards. "It takes the boredom...