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...rings going back tens of thousands of years. Oxygen isotopes trapped in the ice core can tell you what the temperature was in a given year; trapped air bubbles can reveal how much carbon dioxide and other gases were in the atmosphere at a particular time. You can even trace impurities that were in the air during the Roman Empire to a specific lead mine in Spain, according to J.P. Steffensen, one of NEEM's field leaders...
...safety of Navy ships, stole documents and passwords, triggered the shutdown of a 2000-terminal Washington network, deleted critical files and caused a total of $700,000 worth of damage. For his part, McKinnon admits to being a regular cyber-intruder, but has claimed he was searching for some trace of an alien energy technology he believed the U.S. government had discovered and reverse-engineered but was keeping secret in order to keep oil prices high. He also says he was caught because he used his own email address to register his software and that he was smoking...
...InBev itself was only created in 2004, from the merger of Belgium's Interbrew with Brazil's AmBev. It is headquartered in the Flemish city of Leuven, where the company can trace its brewing roots back to 1366. Though the board includes former Belgian Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene, the firm's power brokers are Brazilian investment bankers who have placed an accounting technique known as zero-based budgeting at the heart of their global strategy. It compels divisions to justify all costs for each year, rather than simply adjusting the baseline spending from the previous year...
...this was a convincing performance and one which obviously required no prompting, let alone coercion, from her husband." Robertson said that the court would see in due course how the couple "worked a complex web of transactions between various bank accounts, making the finances all the more difficult to trace." For Mrs. Darwin's defense to succeed, Mr Robertson said that she must prove that her husband was present at the time each fraudulent offense was committed and show that her husband's pressure was so great that "she was impelled to act in a way against her own will...
Some individual ValuJet planes had chronic problems. It would not have been difficult for inspectors [in the Atlanta FAA office] to go over ValuJet records and trace these persistent breakdowns. Instead, the Atlanta inspectors seemed unimpressed with the summary [of problems compiled by Weintrob]. The number of accidents and incidents was not "disproportionate," they said. There was no common link between them. The FAA had no special plans for ValuJet...