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NEWS ABOUT: sabotage

sabotage stories: 8 news summaries

Spectator Death, Squabbles Rock Tour de France

No one has tested positive for drugs, but spirits are still low

Jul 19, 09 1:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cycling can't seem to catch a break. Despite a clean record on drug tests, this year's Tour de France will be wrapping up under dark clouds. Between the death of a 61-year-old spectator, a pellet-gun attack on riders, and accusations of sabotage between teams and individuals, the race itself has... More »

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cycling • death • Tour de France • sabotage • Lance Armstrong • shooting

Edwards Staff Planned to Sabotage Him

Affair rumors inspired 'doomsday' scheme
if he led Dems

May 10, 09 3:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Suspicious that John Edwards was having an affair, several of his campaign staffers drew up a “doomsday” plan to take him down if he seemed likely to win the Democratic nomination, George Stephanopoulos blogs for ABC News. Most staffers dismissed the rumors, but a few close advisers saw the... More »

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John Edwards • Democrats • affair • sabotage • campaign • Democratic nomination

Police Hunt Silicon Valley Phone Vandals

50K lose service in attack that highlights systems' vulnerability

Apr 10, 09 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Authorities in Silicon Valley are hunting for saboteurs who cut fiber-optic telecom cables, leaving more than 50,000 customers—including police and hospitals—in parts of three counties without phone and internet service, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Ten cables were severed, crippling 911 operations, cellphone service, and businesses depending... More »

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Internet • Silicon Valley • San Francisco • cell phones • sabotage • telephone • emergency responders • cellphones

GPA, Personal Essay, SATs ... and Sabotage?

Anonymous smear letters on the rise, say admissions officers

Oct 20, 08 12:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - With competition for college admissions ever rising, some students are aiming to get ahead by trashing their rivals. Admission officials around the US have reported receiving newspaper clippings, references to Facebook pages, and, in one case, a letter written in crayon pointing out other applicants' false claims or unseemly behavior.... More »

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college admissions • University of Chicago • competition • Notre Dame • sabotage • Harvard • colleges and universities • admissions officers

OPINION

Blogfather to Mich. Dems: Vote Romney

Sabotaging GOP primary could pay off down the campaign trail

Jan 11, 08 3:05 PM CST
(Newser) - Left-wing netroots tastemaker Markos Moulitsas Zúniga is endorsing Mitt Romney in next week’s Michigan primary. You read that right. In Michigan's open primary system, any registered voter can cast a Republican ballot, and the blogger calls for strategic sabotage. With the Democratic race uncontested, the Michigan left can... More »

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Mitt Romney • Jesse Jackson • Markos Moulitsas • sabotage • George Wallace • Michigan primary

Beauty
Pageant
Turns Ugly

Would-be Miss Universe overcomes pepper spray sabotage

Nov 26, 07 11:35 AM CST
(Newser) - Ingrid Marie Rivera looked hot at the Miss Puerto Rico Universe pageant—but not in the good way. Pageant officials are investigating who doused the eventual winner's gowns and makeup with pepper spray, the AP reports. Rivera kept her composure before the judges, but once backstage she ripped off her... More »

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Miss Universe • beauty pageant • beauty queen • sabotage • Puerto Rico • pepper spray • Ingrid Marie Rivera • allergic reaction

Nader Sues Dems, Claiming '04 Conspiracy

Suit says Dems and Kerry-Edwards blocked him from state ballots

Oct 30, 07 6:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ralph Nader jumped into the political fray today, suing the Dems for a "vast Democratic Party conspiracy" to block his 2004 election, McClatchy Newspapers reports. He accused the Democratic Party, Kerry-Edwards 2004, and other groups of keeping him from state ballots "as a means to drive into deep... More »

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John Edwards • John Kerry • lawsuit • conspiracy • sabotage • Democratic Party • Ralph Nader

Sabotage Eyed In Outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth

Investigators target
'bio security' at labs making vaccine

Aug 9, 07 6:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - British officials are pursuing the possibility that latest outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease could be the result of sabotage, the Times reports. They've ruled out water leaks spreading the virus from a research lab to nearby farms,and have concluded that "release by human movement must be considered a real... More »

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cattle • health • London • livestock • England • cows • safety • foot and mouth disease • sabotage • Merial • outbreak

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