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...sagetop altitude. A bank of nuclear-radiation sensors, still religiously monitored, stands outside the county's old courthouse in Tonopah, the county seat. The ultimate metaphor for federal intrusion is the Energy Department's hotly controversial proposal to use Yucca Mountain, in Nye, for the nation's first high-level radioactive-waste dump...
Heeding warnings from two high-level Iraqi defectors that Saddam Hussein has recently considered attacking Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, the U.S. sent ships carrying supplies and equipment to the Persian Gulf and ordered 1,400 troops to Kuwait for military maneuvers. Pentagon officials expressed concern about elite Iraqi forces conducting "unusual training activities" around Baghdad...
...info-attack threat well beyond that posed by the hackers who have been irritating the Pentagon for years. "This threat arises from terrorist groups or nation-states, and is far more subtle and difficult to counter than the more unstructured but growing problem caused by hackers," the high-level board said. "A large, structured attack with strategic intent against the U.S. could be prepared and exercised under the guise of unstructured 'hacker' activities." The U.S., it added, might not even know it is under attack. "There is no nationally coordinated capability to counter or even detect a structured threat." Such...
...tradition, the Emperor kept silent during high-level strategy meetings. But on June 22, Hirohito spoke. His words were cloaked in the subtle and elliptical language of the court, but his meaning was clear: an effort must be made to negotiate an end to the war. The words provided no clear direction for his government. Though officials were eager for peace, few were willing to sue for it, certainly not with the U.S. Military factions were ready to stage assassinations or a coup if bureaucrats tried such a move. Japanese diplomats approached the Soviet Union, then neutral in the Pacific...
...able to take six weeks, six months or six years with a child--how-ever long they feel they need. After that period, they should be able to bone up on their field of expertise, re-enter the workplace and be considered as qualified as ever for high-level positions and promotions, if they deserve them...