While executives can be trusted to face reality and learn from it, even if it means bankruptcy, no such corrective faced the politicians and judges who allowed the bankruptcies of some 35 onetime producers of asbestos on account of preposterous claims of "potential illnesses" from this mostly safe and useful material.

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At home, Gonzales acknowledged, he did not put the material into his own safe because he had forgotten the combination, nor does he remember whether he locked his briefcase.

NPR: Report: Ex-AG Gonzales Mishandled Classified Info

Yet the film is beset by incoherence and implausibilities that are perplexing, given the close relationship between the Wachowskis and the director, Mr. McTeigue -- this is not one of those familiar cases, it's safe to say, where the writers lost control of their material when it went into production.

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"I think people love the source material because no character is sacred, no character is safe, and anyone -- even the most beloved and innocent people in the comic -- could be killed at any moment, " said Blair Butler, comic book expert for G4's "Attack of the Show" -- and one of many fans of the book's creator, Robert Kirkman.

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She added that the only safe way to eradicate the plant was to remove or sterilise all below ground material.

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In the years that followed, Gonzales stored this information and 17 other documents that the inspector general discovered in a safe outside his Justice Department office that also was not designated as protected for such top secret material.

NPR: Report: Ex-AG Gonzales Mishandled Classified Info

It is biodegradable, safe enough to be used as food packaging, can be processed like existing thermoplastics into coloured or transparent material and can be manufactured from renewable resources such as maize and sugarcane.

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The report includes that the safe was accessible to more than a half dozen Gonzales staff members who did not have clearance to see such material.

NPR: Report: Ex-AG Gonzales Mishandled Classified Info