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...French politicians, businesspeople and public figures purportedly held accounts containing illegal kickback money from arms sales. A list of those names - including Sarkozy's - was brought to Villepin's attention in 2004, but was later deemed to be a fraud by a top French spy called in to vet it. A Villepin intimate has testified he sent the list to a justice official convinced it was authentic, and that it wasn't until later that he learned the list was definitely a fake. What the judge overseeing the trial must now determine is whether Villepin ordered the forged list...
...concurrent theme—concurrent with wanting to be a vet as a little girl. I didn’t start writing for real until I was in my mid to late twenties, but I’d always worked with animals and veterinarians. I’d been a surgical assistant for one. Oh, wait, do you hear that? Snoring dog in the background...
...ready for a closeup: your next job interview might be on webcam. Looking to save time and money, companies are turning to video-chat software as a cheap, low-hassle way to vet job candidates. That means a growing number of people looking for work are meeting their prospective new bosses not at the office but in the comfort of their own home...
...licked the air and waved her muzzle back and forth. Something about the smell wasn't right. "Our dogs go through at least two years of training, but they only know how to find live people because we can't use corpses in training," explains Linda Hornisbesger, a vet and head of a canine search team for Swiss Rescue, which arrived in Padang on Oct. 2 with 115 people, 18 dogs and an ample supply of kibble and Scooby snacks. "So when the dogs are in the field and smell a person who's dead, they feel very upset...
Kevin O'Leary stars on ABC's new business reality show Shark Tank as one of five executives who vet business ideas pitched by would-be entrepreneurs. O'Leary often delivers the harshest of the business critiques. On a recent show, he called one small-business owner "radioactive." On another show he told a woman who said her products spread happiness that her business was worthless...