Spying enters a new age

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Spying enters a new age

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F F I L G O H O TING G Unused leave WITH DIN is a drain on FLOODING state’s books IN SOUTH a $294,440 check upon his re- Despite an 80-day tirement last year. Former parole agent Thomas Berns i A n  s L p o il u l i w si a a y n  i a s     t o o p  s e a n v e e d c w a o p r ,  k s e o rs m  g e e   t depa f r i t g in ur g e accrued nearly three years’ six- worth of time off, allowing  o ties from the  vacation payouts. him a $268,990 cash-out, state records show. m Mi a s j si r s   s c i i ppi River. Jack Dolan Such payouts are almost reporting from unheard of in the private sacramento sector. Most companies al- r T e i p n o a r S ti u n s g m f a r n om low employees to accrue a new orleans few weeks of vacation, but af- Managers in California’s ter that it’s “use it or lose it,” government routinely ig- said Steven Frates, research In a last-ditch move to re- nore official limits on the director of Pepperdine Uni- lieve stress on levees bur- number of vacation days versity’s Davenport Insti- dened by floodwaters, the their employees can save, tute on public policy. “The U.S. Army Corps of Engi- compelling the state to cut theory behind vacations, of neers opened a major Mis- huge checks — many worth course, is rest and recupera- sissippi River floodgate Sat- six figures — for unused time tion and recharge.” urday afternoon for only the off when workers retire. But in state government, second time in nearly 40 Prison doctor Fong Lai lax oversight, understaffing years, funneling water received $594,976 when he and a spate of furloughs in toward farmland and small retired in 2010. Like most recent years have resulted in communities to protect New state employees, Lai was widespread stockpiling. Orleans and Baton Rouge. supposed to bank no more “This is a problem A crane lifted the metal than 80 days of vacation, but throughout state service be- teeth on one of the Morganza his payment represented cause the vacation caps Spillway’s 125 gates, and a more than 2 1 ⁄ 2 years of un- not been enforced,” have wall of foamy water began used time off. said Gil Duran, spokesman rushing through, forming a Jay Wickizer, an adminis- for Gov. Jerry Brown. The massive and fast-growing trator for the Department of governor plans to chip away puddle on land that minutes Sean Gardner Reuters  atForestry and Fire Protec- the vacation stockpiles earlier had been dry. The LET LOOSE: Army Corps of Engineers opens the Morganza Spillway toThe U.S.  a “budget that is honest withtion, saved about the same water branched out over the Mississippi floodwaters from threatening New Orleans and Baton Rouge.divert number of days, resulting in[SeeVacation,A23] grassy flood plain and began rippling southward toward isolated hamlets, fishing and hunting camps, and A ma towns tucked among the ster bayous. One news helicopter - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - spotted a rabbit darting out h g of e a  t r n “ h e . I , e t ”   ’   s w s   a a i y g d   o a   i s K n  t e g h   n  e  t W fl o a o   i o n b d w i e  n ri g g b  b h a e t d , - dea: s shiwo i r c k who helped his nephew pack mag on up the belongings in his t t h w i o o h n   u r e y i   r s s e e L e       t o i t h n u o i   e   s 2 B i w 9 a u   a f n t t e t a e e   e r   t b     i L i a s n a   y   e   t o x R h u p   e o   e t s n c o e t e , w   e x n a d t gs museum several days. rig “ ht W  t h o a   t f   lo g o i d v   e u s s   ? t  I h   e m m e   an t , h  I e e shape in Michael Govan has a u r n e d   e s r o s   ta m n a d n   y i   t, c   o bu m t  m … u   n t i h ti e e r s e e partnership and so many farmers and so transformed LACMA many businesses,” Cindy and become a cultural Prejent, of Gibson, said as she placed sandbags around force. He’s not done. her home. Jori Fink It was the first time since el 1973 that the corps had re- sorted to opening the Mor- Michael Govan, director ganza Spillway, about 40 of the Los Angeles County miles north of Baton Rouge, Museum of Art, crouched in the Louisiana capital, and the pit of a stone quarry in 185 miles upstream from Riverside. Wearing black New Orleans. The move jeans and a brown sports underscored the potential coat, he dragged a finger for catastrophe if the rain- through the sandy floor to swollen Mississippi had run draw the northern edge of unfettered through the the LACMA campus. state’s two largest cities. On a key spot in his ad “The system is under tre- hoc map, he placed a granite mendous pressure, and it’s stone the size of an orange, going to be under tremen- meant to represent a rugged dous pressure for quite a 340-ton boulder standing in long time,” said the corps’ the quarry behind him. If all Mississippi division com- goes according to plan, that mander, Maj. Gen. Michael boulder will make a seven- Walsh, at a news conference day journey in August from shortly before the gate was the quarry to the museum’s lifted. “This system was re- Carolyn Cole Los Angeles Times Miracle Mile location on a ally designed back in the station operator at the specially designed 200- 1930s to protect lives, and arch and development wheel truck. There, it will [SeeSpillway,A22] ard-looking industries. rest on two concrete rails lin- ing a 15-foot-deep trough, as the museum’s newest sculp- ture: “Levitated Mass” by Michael Heizer, a famously reclusive artist who has de- Where coal mining is often child’s work voted decades to building a “city” of earthworks in the Nevada desert that few out- siders are allowed to visit. blackened by coal. None LACMA’s director de- Northeast India’s  scribeshave helmets. Two hours of the boulder — which grinding work fills a cart half visitors will be able to walk d m a a n k g e e s r h o if u t s     s b h u a t f   t w s  e a l r l e  the size of a coffin that they as though it were levi- under drag back, crouching, to the tating — as simultaneously mouth where a clerk credits contemporary and timeless. suited to small bodies.  ultramodern because “It’stheir work. Most earn a dol- lar or two an hour.[SeeGovan,A18] Mark Magnier “A big stone fell on a reportin a g i     from friend at a nearby mine last ladrymb , india year, and he died,” said Sha- ran Rai, 16, taking a break Weather Page ...... A44 The young miners de- near the entrance with his scend on rickety ladders friend Late Boro, 14. Both Complete Index ...... A2 made of branches into the started mining when they TODAY’S SECTIONS makeshift coal mines dot- were 12. “The owners didn’t California, Business, ting the Jaintia Hills in pay the family anything. I try northeast India, scrambling and check if the walls look Sports, Calendar, sideways into “rat hole” strong before I go in.” Arts & Books, shafts so small that even Sharan may be leaving Travel, Image kneeling becomes impos- this hazardous work behind. Printed with soy sible. Lying horizontally, He quit fourth grade years inks on partially they hack away with picks back, and an area civic recycled paper. and their bare hands: Hu- group has persuaded him to man labor here is far cheap- return. Late, from Assam Daniel Berehulak Getty Images  who has never at- state,er than machines. CHEAP LABOR: coal depot in India’s Meghalaya state. Under-A boy works at a Many wear flip-flops and school and is illiter- tended age miners in the region, as young as 8, are believed to number in the thousands. shorts, their faces and lungs[SeeMiners,A8]