Ksdm Mexico s axolotl water monster may be extinct in the wild
As many as 3,000 airport screeners could lose their jobs this spring as the government reassesses the size of the work force that it brought to full strength only last November.The head of the Transportation Security Administration, James Loy, told a House Appr
stanley canada opriations subcommittee that he wants to reduce the number of screeners from 54,000 to 51,000 - cutting about one in 18 - and that layoff notices could
stanley mug begin going out April 1.By October 2004, the government plans to have 48,000 screeners, with reductions through attrition and other steps, an agency spokesman said later.The chairman of the homeland security panel said that at Groton/New London Airport in Connecticut, 26 federal screeners check an average of one passenger every five hours. Rep. Harold Rogers, R-Kentucky, estimates screeners at a third of U.S. airports check an average of three passengers an hour.The effort to trim the screening work force comes as Congress scrutinizes Loy s agency, now in its second year of existence. Lawmakers say they want to make sure the agency is doing what Congress intended, including tightening security for the transportation system. Rogers said he is disappointed by what he said w
stanley water bottle as the agency s emphasis on aviation security at the expense of highways, railroads, pipelines and ports. You need to take a good hard look at our border and transportation systems, Rogers told Loy. If we have a weakness, it will be found. Other lawmakers said they were concerned about holes in Mmxr A Beautiful Nordic Coffee Machine That s Pre-Approved for Snobs
Canada wildlife is at it again, but this time they ;re playing out a classic scene from literature. It The Count of Monte Cristo, or perhaps The Shawshank Redemp
stanley cup tion, zoo style. In The Count of Mo
stanley quencher nte Cristo, the Mad Priest miscalculates the route that his tunnel must take to break him out of imprisonment at the Ch芒teau d ;If and instead winds up digging into another prisoner cell. Taking a page from Alexandre Dumas, a pack of 5 grey wolves at the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg managed to dig a tunnel straight into the polar bear enclosure. Whoops. Luckily for
stanley mug all carnivores involved, the wolves simply walked around the bear enclosure while the two female polar bears couldn ;t even be bothered to wake from their slumber. Zoo staff discovered the predator party the following morning. CTV News reports that after the wolves were separated from the bears, all animals were removed from their respective enclosures so that zoo workers could seal the tunnel. The animals are now back in their proper places, and the new Journey to Churchill exhibit is once again open for public viewing. Zoo officials have promised that the wolves aren ;t actually capable of tunneling out of the exhibit into human-inhabited parts of the zoo. No word on what the wolves have planned for their next caper. AnimalsPolar bear
