Word: soiled
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...been informed by conflicting mandates. On the one hand, the U.S. has made a show of plugging up the Mexican border to keep out migrant workers and drug smugglers. Yet it gives much less public scrutiny to the millions who enter the country by air. Once foreigners reach American soil unlawfully, the INS, under pressure from industries that depend on cheap labor, does next to nothing to throw them out. The job of tracking the more than 6 million illegal aliens who've made it in falls to a squad of just 2,000 INS enforcement agents, a force...
...least one sense, Osama bin Laden was not successful [THE WAR, Oct. 1]. One of the stated goals of his terrorist group al-Qaeda is to drive American "infidels" from Islam's sacred soil. But the attacks against innocent civilians on Sept. 11 only resulted in a large U.S. military presence in the Middle East and even greater U.S. resolve. PAUL A. FAWCETT Redmond, Wash...
...caused by the rod-shaped bacterium Bacillus anthracis. When not actively infecting sheep or moose or people, the bug forms hard-shelled spores and goes into a kind of hibernation. These spores are hardy little things, resistant to sunlight, heat and disinfectant. They have been known to survive in soil for 80 years...
...videotaped message from his mountain hideout declaring the U.S. would not live in peace "before peace reigns in Palestine" and foreign troops "depart the land of Muhammad." Taliban officials said that in the wake of the strikes bin Laden was free to issue statements, though not to use Afghan soil for "acts against any other country." Bush offered the Taliban a "second chance," saying he would call off the assault if they surrendered bin Laden. The regime rejected the proposal. The Western military action sparked protests in Pakistan, Indonesia, Iraq and the Palestinian territories, where police opened fire...
...knowledge, our ground forces there have taken no direct action yet. And if it happens, of course, we may not know about it. U.S. troops could already be firing weapons on Afghan soil, and we might not know about it. Of course, the Pentagon has already told us that if a U.S. special forces soldier is killed, they will inform the media in a timely manner once the next of kin have been informed. So if we take them at their word, which can be risky, there have been no U.S. fatalities on the ground in Afghanistan to date...