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...Company, part of the 1st U.S. Marine Expeditionary Force, are withdrawing under fire. At 4:30 that morning, 150 Marines had moved into the southern edge of the city to destroy two bunkers that insurgents were using to fire on their positions. Easy's Third Platoon moved in to inspect one of the buildings, which had been hit the day before by a 500-lb. bomb. Platoon Commander 2nd Lieut. Ilario Pantano reported back that they had found gun emplacements and binoculars and that the building was still usable by insurgents. Another Marine later recalled the smell of death. Tank...
Rosgen's drive to restore rivers was born of rage. As a young Forest Service worker, he was assigned to inspect an area in his native north Idaho. There, he saw a pristine stream that had been ruined by runoff from timber clear cutting. Rosgen lost his temper, eventually quit the Forest Service and started his own stream-restoration consulting enterprise. Federal agencies that had ignored his complaints are now among the clients that pay Rosgen to teach employees about doctoring streams. He retreats between trips to his horse-ranch headquarters north of Fort Collins, Colo. These days...
Last week French officials tried to pay AZF the equivalent of $5.2 million it had demanded for revealing the location of other bombs. But after an attempt to deliver the ransom to a field 65 miles south of Paris failed, French officials dispatched 10,000 workers to inspect the nation's 20,000 miles of tracks. They found nothing. "We're still taking this extremely seriously because we know these people are very organized and intelligent," says a French security official. He says AZF's missives suggest it is an "extreme leftist, perhaps anarchist" group but stops short of calling...
...experts detonated. Last week French officials tried to deliver the equivalent of €4.2 million AZF had demanded in exchange for the location of other bombs, but failed to find the drop point - a field 105 km south of Paris. As a result, they dispatched 10,000 workers to inspect 32,000 km of tracks. They found nothing. "We're still taking this extremely seriously because we know these people are very organized and intelligent," says a security official. He says AZF's missives suggest it is an "extreme leftist, perhaps anarchist" group but stops short of calling...
...part, the FDA maintains that all these facilities are perfectly safe, that they have undergone inspections and that their manufacturing processes have been certified as meeting the agency's standards. But while the FDA does indeed inspect plants before opening, after that the oversight trails off. "The FDA has limited resources," an industry consultant told TIME. "The foreign drug-inspection program I don't think is very strong." Yet the industry is building more facilities abroad--both research and manufacturing complexes--placing an ever greater burden on an already overextended FDA staff...