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...next-day-delivery services vulnerable to terrorist attack? A former courier for Federal Express thinks so and claims that he was dismissed when he tried to warn the company. Max Cornelssen, 49, notes that when shippers use commercial flights, packages receive insufficient inspection before being dispatched. He fears that hidden explosive devices could wreak destruction on the U.S. commercial fleet. When Cornelssen submitted a plan for package inspections, he was put on suspension and later fired. FedEx says the dismissal was for unrelated violations of policy. The company's security chief points out that only about...
...alertness during the day. Most of the time the distress is temporary, brought on by anxiety about a problem at work or a sudden family crisis. But sometimes sleep difficulties extend for months and years. Faced with a chronic situation, insomniacs frequently medicate themselves with alcohol or drugs. Doctors warn that in most cases sleeping pills should not be taken for longer than two or three weeks. Such drugs can lose their effectiveness with time, and it takes higher and higher dosages to achieve a result. People run the risk of becoming dependent on the pills...
...chamber were clear and unequivocal. Given time, the sanctions against Iraq could be counted on to halt its industry and hobble its military. That judgment would have been no surprise if it had come from any of the Democrats who used last week's House and Senate hearings to warn the Bush Administration against a hasty resort to force in the Persian Gulf. But the message came from one of the President's own men: William Webster, director of the Central Intelligence Agency...
...investment will be large enough or delivered fast enough. The number of unemployed in the region, estimated at half a million, threatens to expand further as enterprises come to the end of the interim period during which they had to keep underemployed workers on their payrolls. Some economists warn that half of the 8.5 million workers in the East could lose their jobs. Patience in the East is wearing thin: violence, including some directed against the small number of foreigners in the area, has been growing sharply...
...Commandments warn against stealing, against bearing false witness, against coveting. Plagiarius is kidnapper in Latin. The plagiarist snatches the writer's brainchildren, pieces of his soul. Plagiarism gives off a shabby metaphysic. Delaware's Senator Joseph Biden, during the 1988 presidential primaries, expanded the conceptual frontier by appropriating not just the language of British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock but also of his poignant Welsh coal-mining ancestors. Biden transplanted the mythic forebears to northeastern Pennsylvania. He conjured them coming up out of the mines to play football. "They read poetry and wrote poetry and taught me how to sing...