FBI agent arrested for selling secrets to Moscow
A 13 year FBI veteran, Earl Edwin Pitts, 43, was arrested at the FBI Academy in Quantico on charges of selling secrets to Moscow for more than 224000 dollars. He allegedly began spying in 1987 and was paid over 224k including 100k in a reserve account.
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Moscow
Earl Edwin Pitts
FBI Academy
Quantico
Soviet Union
Reserve
Pitts
U.S
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Janet Reno
Louis Freeh
Mary
Bureau
Freeh
U.S. District Court
Alexandria
Thomas Rawles Jones
Nina Ginsberg
ABC Loses $10 Million Libel Suit Over Levan Story
A seven member jury awarded Allan Levan BankAtlantic and related defendants 10 million in damages after ruling ABC aired a false 1991 report about Levan, his real estate partners, and bond deals. ABC plans appeal while Levan calls for journalism reforms.
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ABC
BankAtlantic
Allan Levan
Levan
Alan Levan
Alan Fein
Savings
Miami
Fort Lauderdale
Floyd Abrams
William Willson
U.S
C. Clyde Atkins
Insects create lift via leading edge vortex, study says
Cambridge zoologist Charles Ellington and colleagues report in Nature that insects generate lift by a whirling air cylinder above their wings. Using hawkmoths and a mechanical moth model, they show the vortex forms near the leading edge, lowers pressure, and sustains lift, with air slipping toward the wingtip to prevent overgrowth.
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Nature
Cambridge University
Charles P. Ellington
Ellington
Tex
Steven Vogel
Duke University
Gas powered mail truck unveiled by energy officials
The first of 54 two ton mail trucks powered by compressed natural gas is unveiled with use planned in Atlanta in February and 53 more by July across Atlanta Denver New York El Paso and Huntington Beach. Freightliner Custom Chassis builds the trucks under the clean cities program with DOE oversight and the USPS option for up to 200 more.
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Texas
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Gas Research Institute
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Post Office
Freightlin
Er Custom Chassis Corp
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D.C
Postal Service
Department of Energy
Freightliner
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