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...former workspace with her desk and dresser and chair taking up most of the room. I close the room because one wall is an enormous bay window, which, despite the traffic noise, lets in a lot of light. I moved my stuff into a corner while she tried to unload drawers and cram the contents into boxes and bags...
...least a dozen relief workers trying unsuccessfully to reach Goma from Entebbe last week. Several U.S. military flights that did make it as far as Goma circled the airstrip, then flew back to Entebbe after missing their landing-slot time because workers on the ground took too long to unload cargo from other planes. Government officials were demanding fees for allowing planes to land. American troops who did make it to Goma installed water- purification equipment that by Saturday was producing 120,000 gal. of water a day, but the only way to transport it was in tanker trucks...
Since late April, North Korea has been telling the IAEA that it intended to unload fuel rods from its main nuclear reactor near the city of Yongbyon. According to Defense Secretary William Perry, Yongbyon's estimated 8,000 rods contain enough plutonium to build four or five bombs, and inspectors need to see if all the fuel is still there. The issue is of critical importance because the CIA estimates that fuel rods removed from Yongbyon in 1989 provided the plutonium to build one or two nuclear weapons. Whether Pyongyang actually has them is impossible to know for sure...
...asks Jessica Reif, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. "He's giving up hard, cold cash for stock, and he's accepting a smaller post in a much bigger company." Says Jeffrey Logsdon, who follows the company for Seidler Amdec: "This is an exit strategy for Huizenga. He gets to unload a declining business before it falls off the cliff...
Employees unload them from apartment-style steel crates where as many as four layers of 28 chickens may be innocently pecking up their last supper...