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...official misinformation? Beijing is in the middle of its annual political showcase, the National People's Congress, and party leaders surely worry that their handpicked delegates might wander from their scripts and ask tough questions about China's education failures. And with the International Olympic Committee voting in July on Beijing's bid to host the 2008 Games, perhaps Zhu didn't want anyone bringing up the fact that all those stuffed Olympic mascots and five-ring banners could be manufactured by kids in sweatshops. Last year China was embarrassed by reports that children were working 17-hour days packing...
...administered at the CIA, but he doesn't believe that is the only answer. More promising, he says, are smarter computer-security systems that signal senior managers whenever an employee without a true need to know tries to access sensitive case files. "Invariably [double agents] are apt to wander into areas where they don't belong," says Webster. "We may not always recognize them when they belong--but we can when they don't belong." In the old days, he recalls, a librarian would report anyone asking for files that they didn't need to see. Says Webster: "We need...
...question Hawaneen, a hollow-cheeked Afghan with a wispy beard, had debated with his elders for many weeks, while the famine--the worst in 30 years--tightened its grip on the village. Would they stand a better chance of survival if they remained? Or should they wander elsewhere until they found help? After a three-year drought, every village well had run dry, and the goats and sheep had died. Finally Hawaneen decided it was time to go; he had fed his family the last grains of wheat he had intended to plant this spring if the rains ever came...
...Harvard's 12 Houses will click open for them. This "safe space" argument is hard for Masters and administrators (who have for years blocked UKA in the name of security) to counter. They have to admit that students know a little more than they about how it feels to wander the streets of Cambridge...
...Though the farmers typically made the most noise, they were hardly the only ones affected by the crisis. At the Paris wholesale market in Rungis, white-smocked vendors wander gloomily among hanging sides of beef as a trickle of customers-mostly butchers and restaurateurs-poke and prod the carcasses. Especially hard hit is Francis Fauchère, whose firm Eurodis caters to supermarkets, restaurant chains and school cafeterias-many of which have eliminated beef from their menus. "What's killing us is the doubt," says Fauchère, whose sales plunged as much as 60%. "All this meat is tested...