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Ethiopian Adoption Scans
The number of adoptions of orphans from Ethiopia to the US more than tripled from 2006 to 2009. CBS found that at least one US adoption agency in Ethiopia was involved in fraud and child trafficking while agency managers in the US were looking the other way.
Tags: adoption; Ethiopia; child trafficking;
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Money Machines
Open Advanced MRI may be operating illegally in Oregon because of the way it engages in practices. Each doctor that refers a patient to have an MRI will receive $500 from OAMRI, and also receive money for other scans as well.
Tags: Gerald Warnock; insurance; medicaid; medicare; medical; physician
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Primetime Thursday -- Caught Cheating
This Primetime investigation examined highschools and colleges across the United States, and found that cheating is all too common. Reporters talked with students who cheat and administrators who have to dole out the punishment. The investigation exposed new, high tech methods of cheating such as text messaging or hand-held internet devices. On the other hand, it also exposed new high-tech methods of catching cheaters, such as a website that scans documents for plagiarism. The investigators talked with students and parents to offer possible reasons for this trend.
Tags: high school; secondary school; college; university; testing; exams; finals; academic honesty; ethics; professors
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Security fears at Newark Airport
This series of stories examines the security deficiencies at Newark Liberty International Airport, one of the three airports breached by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001. More than two years after Sept. 11, thousands of bags each day are not being scanned for explosives and security checkpoints remain seriously understaffed, the newspaper found. Subsequent stories revealed equipment problems, security lapses and significant employee absences by security personnel.
Tags: airport security; Newark Liberty International Airport; Sept. 11; TSA; Transportation Security Administration
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Deadly Discrepancy: New Light on Aortic Aneurysms
This collection of stories won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. The authors did in-depth reporting about aortic aneurysms, a dangerous bulge in an important artery. This condition causes 25,000 - 40,000 deaths a year, most of which are preventable. Conventional medical wisdom says that such aneurysms are rare, but this investigation proved otherwise. The investigation found that there is available technology to ease this condition and save lives, but it is not being used effectively because physicians misdiagnos the problem.
Tags: medicine; surgery; ruptured artery; aortic disease; CT scan; heart disease
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Airport Security Test
In the post 9/11 era, the government has been taking steps to increase the security at airports. But as these investigations reveal, there are still some lapses in security. As this story tells us, though the number of people and equipment has been increased, at the airports, the personnel there don't have the essential training to inspect luggage and use the equipment efficiently.
Tags: aviation safety; 9/11; security post 9/11; airport security; scanning machines at airports; orange alert; homeland security
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War on Error
An investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and the Center for Public Integrity reveals that "more than six months of live pictures from U.S. aerial spy missions had been broadcast in real time to viewers throughout Europe and the Balkans. The spy flights, conduct by U.S. Army and Navy units and AirScan Inc, a Florida-based private military company, were used to monitor terrorist and smugglers trying to cross borders. The broadcasts were not encrypted, meaning that anyone in the region with a normal satellite TC receiver could spy on U.S. surveillance operations as they happened. Live pictures from the spy planes had been transmitted over the Internet by satellite enthusiasts. The stories pointed to a major security lapse at a time when questions were being asked about intelligence failures prior to September 11, 2001.
Tags: satellite; aerial; spy; missions; U.S. Army; Navy; AirScan Inc; September 11; 2001; surveillance; online; CD
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Body of Evidence. Biometrics turns your face, hand, or eye into your badgfe of identity
New technologies establish a person's identity based on distinctive physical features. Most include a scanner or camera and software for analyzing the images. extracting features, and digitizing the information. The system can then check the digital biometric against a database to verify identity.
Tags: security; safety; identity; biometrics; finger-scan
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Airport security: Years of inaction left flawed system to fail
A Kansas City Star investigative packet examines lapses in aviation security, which allowed for the Sept. 11 terrorist attack to occur. Airlines have always fought against draft legislation for raising minimum security standards, the Star reports, in order to keep their attractiveness to customers and profit margins. One of the stories reveals that airlines have regularly sent congressmen on vacation and 'educational' trips for free, in exchange for favorable legislation. Despite constant warnings by the General Accounting Office, not only the Congress, but also the FAA failed to enforce rules to tighten airport security. Some of the findings are that screeners sometimes turned out to be felons, and bags were not scanned for bombs. The investigation focuses on problems detected specifically at the Kansas City International Airport, the nation's 35th busiest airport.
Tags: American Association of Airport Executives; Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); TWA; United Airlines; Delta Air; screeners; security; lobbying; bombs; terrorism; bombs; check-in; X-rays; weapons
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Patriots for Profit
WKRC-TV finds that "members of the patriot movement appear to be funding their cause by setting themselves up as a 'bank.' The fraudulent 'bank' is willing to help homeowners faced with foreclosure by legitimate banks. The militia members scan local newspapers for word of foreclosure on properties. They then contact the embattled homeowner, offering to buy their mortgage from the bank and prevent the foreclosure. In exchange the homeowner agrees to a 'lend lease' agreement with the militia bank, which is usually an operation called Soverign Accounting Agency."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; patriot movement; fraud; banks; foreclosures