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...society was founded in 1776 by undergraduates at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., and is the oldest national honor society...
...Director George Tenet is sitting in his seventh-floor office at Langley, Va., sipping coffee at 8:45 a.m., when an aide rushes in: India has just set off a nuclear test explosion. This is terrible news because New Delhi has just blown a giant hole in the campaign to control the spread of atomic weapons, and because the CIA is only learning about it from the press. Tenet's $27 billion-a-year intelligence apparatus, the largest and most sophisticated on the globe, has been humiliatingly blindsided. Nuclear proliferation is supposed to be its top priority, yet neither...
...Joanne McAvoy of Alexandria, Va., traded in 130,000 Club Rewards points to give their son Michael, 13, a unique birthday present. In August he will take part in a special five-day space-camp program sponsored by NASA. At one point, he will be put behind the controls of a small two-person propeller plane for 30 minutes and will receive credit toward a private pilot's license. "Our son wants to be a pilot someday, and he is just so excited about taking part in this," says Joanne McAvoy. "I never would have thought you could do something...
Satellite photos taken of the site six hours before the blasts finally revealed clear evidence of the preparations. They were beamed back to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency in Fairfax, Va. But the agency was on a routine schedule for processing photos from India. Congressional investigators will now probe whether that Pentagon agency was paying too much attention to foreign military bases instead of political targets like India. CIA photo analysts got their first glimpse of the incriminating shots when they strolled into work Monday morning. By the time they delivered their first report that Pokhran was being prepared...
...provision that allows actions that protect natural resources. The "enemy" of wildlife and the environment is not free global trade; it is poorly crafted trade policies that sell short the protections in which all citizens of the world have a stake. MARK VAN PUTTEN, President National Wildlife Federation Vienna, Va...