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...visas against Interpol lists, says Washington director Renkiewicz. While Davies says those new rules will "add to the risk of failure," Noble argues that it may be worth the occasional mistake if the payoff is averting his nightmare scenario of a passenger carrying a nuclear device or biological weapon onto a plane. If that were to happen, he says, "people will never forgive us." As a personal reminder of what's at stake, Noble has hung in his office two photographs of the Manhattan skyline that were taken before the World Trade Center was destroyed. "It shows us what...
...graduate sociology student at NIU. School officials recalled him as "respected ... a fairly normal student." In recent weeks, however, Kazmierczak had been behaving "erratically" since he allegedly stopped taking medications for a condition the authorities declined to specify. State police said he had obtained a permit to purchase a weapon in January 2007. He picked up two of the weapons used in the attack - the shotgun and the Glock - from a Champaign, Ill., store on Feb. 9. The other two weapons - 9-mm and .38 caliber pistols - were purchased at the same store last year...
...which the structure of democracy was constructed. Had the courts not been independent for 200 years, the non-landholding gentry would never have won the right to vote. Independence of the courts preceded democracy. You see what the Americans are trying to institute in Iraq as the most important weapon against the war on terror there. It's justice, democracy, and empowered people. And here they have participated in the demolition of the same structures. We have a judicial tradition and reasonably independent judges. We had a reasonable tradition of empowered votes. [Allowing the government of Pakistan to dismiss...
...bigger bacteria out of infectious fluid and finding that it still made lab rats sick. Economics relies on Ockham too. The very best way to increase tax revenue is - sorry to say - to increase taxes. And criminal lawyers absolutely love Ockham: Motive, opportunity and your fingerprints on a weapon don't always mean you did it, but they do often enough that, odds are, you're going away for a reason...
...Benjamin Hotel in New York City perhaps goes the furthest to ensure slumber. It actually guarantees a restful night. If you don't sleep as well as at home, it will refund the cost of your stay. The hotel improves its odds with a secret weapon: sleep concierge Anya Orlanska, who contacts guests by e-mail before arrival to determine their preferences and needs. "I would say 80% of our guests take advantage of this service," she says. Orlanska helps them choose from 11 types of pillows, including hypoallergenic and water-filled models, a jelly neck roll...