Word: reportable
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NANOTECHNOLOGY New processes will help create lighter, tougher body armor. Tiny sensors embedded in the fabric will detect wounds and report the soldier's status to medics...
...wildfires--acts of God or of fickle thunderclaps or of anonymous careless cigarette smokers--the origins of this debacle are known. And the recriminations are starting. Roy Weaver, the Bandelier superintendent, was put on paid leave. He said he was not aware of the seven-hour-old National Weather report and had based his go-ahead for the burn on spot forecasts. The National Weather Service, however, insists it had faxed the report to Weaver's office. "This did not have to happen," says Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico. "I believe, based on common sense, that somebody made...
...Democratic Republic of Congo in a civil war that saw the assassination of that country's leader, Patrice Lumumba, whom Sankoh admired. After a brief and unhappy stint as a cameraman in Britain, Sankoh supported a 1971 coup attempt in Sierra Leone, was found guilty of "failing to report a mutiny" and was jailed for seven years. The humiliations were the kernels of his revolution...
...report on the recently declassified Vietnam War documents [HISTORY, April 24], Douglas Brinkley described with some pathos the American agony over the war. He touched on American attitudes toward what must be a tremendous problem--how to deal with what the U.S. government did or did not do--during and after nearly 15 years of involvement in Vietnam. While the American people will surely come to their own reckoning, one cannot help wondering whether the Vietnamese will one day achieve justice. Perhaps the American soul could rest easier if the U.S. government acknowledged its sins--maybe even the crimes...
...FRAUD Internet fraud, like Internet usage, is on the rise. The National Consumers League reported 10,660 complaints last year--a 38% increase over 1998. So, the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center have just launched www.ifccfbi.gov a site where consumers can report any suspected e-fraud. The center will route your complaints about anything from fraudulent investment offerings to failure-to-render scams--such as paying for goods that are never received--to the appropriate state, local or federal agency, even to international branches...