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...most secure airport in the nation, and it wants to be a model of what other airports may become. It was the first major airport to screen all bags for explosives last January with full-scale bomb-detection machines. It formed the nation's first airport-based Anti-Terrorism Unit of troopers who prowl the concourses toting submachine guns. It has set up a perimeter stretching 250 ft. into Boston Harbor that puts the airport off limits to boaters. And state troopers conduct random vehicle searches along its access roads. Later this month Logan will become the only U.S. airport...
Operating on intelligence more reliable than the sheik's tip, members of Task Force 20, the military's special-operations unit charged with nabbing high-value targets in Iraq, quietly descended on an airstrip near Mosul last Wednesday--backed by MC-130 combat Talon planes, modified humvees and so-called little-bird attack helicopters--to prepare for a potential assault. A battalion from the 101st Airborne Division, based in Sinjar, was on alert to seal off escape routes leading to the Syrian border. But that day Saddam was not to be found. "We shoot a lot of dry holes...
...school’s surprising ability to close its budget gap last year was due to the performance of its cost-cutting measures, according to Executive Dean J. Bonnie Newman, who noted that no administrative unit of the school exceeded the tight budgets that had been...
While Newman said she had worried that the Executive Programs, which target many international students, would underperform and incur large deficits due to the war in Iraq and SARS, the school actually added some extra programs and the unit met its budget...
...Fluno, 53, of Orlando, Fla., says she, like Maglione, had to train her replacement--a common practice in the domestic outsourcing industry--when her data-processing unit at Germany-based Siemens was outsourced to India's Tata last year. "It's extremely insulting," she says. "The guy's sitting there doing my old job." After 10 months of looking, she is working again, but she had to take...