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Looking for a place to grow marijuana and live, rent-free, in a cave with all the creature comforts of home? Why not a canyon, tucked away within the 40 square miles of the nation's top-secret nuclear weapons research facility in Los Alamos? That's where Roy Michael Moore, 56, was recently discovered living in a cave equipped with a glass front door, a wood stove, a bed, electricity-generating solar panels with batteries to store the power, and lights. "From the campsite that I saw, he had been there quite a long time," said Los Alamos deputy fire chief Doug Tucker. "He...

LOS ALAMOS— Los Alamos National Laboratory director Pete Nanos told employees Thursday they no longer are in a fight to retain University of California control of the labs but now are fighting to maintain the labs' very existence. By losing credibility when sensitive materials are lost or mishandled, Nanos said, Los Alamos could lose business from private corporations as well as federal funding and support. Indeed, on Thursday, Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., long considered LANL's biggest booster, released an "open letter" to the residents of Los Alamos that was highly critical of the lab. Nanos railed against employees and scientists...

A pair of Chinese diplomats, AWOL from their Los Angeles consulate, sped through a Los Alamos National Laboratory security checkpoint in February. A lab spokesman declined to speculate Monday on what the diplomats were trying to do, although a Washington newspaper quoted unnamed U.S. government officials as saying the incident may have been intended as a test of LANL's security system. In any case, the Chinese diplomats witnessed firsthand a speedy reaction by the laboratory's armed guard force. "We have assets that are deployed and will pursue and halt any vehicle that fails to stop at a checkpoint," LANL spokesman...

Article: Good Intentions, Bad Idea HONOLULU: Some unsolicited advice to professors, congressmen, former diplomats and anyone seeking a Nobel Peace Prize nomination: If you really want to help resolve the nuclear standoff on the Korean Peninsula, stay home. Such delegations are always well intentioned but generally not very helpful in actually resolving the crisis. True, former President Jimmy Carter's mission to Pyongyang in 1994 did help save the day, moving the Clinton administration and Kim Il Sung, father of North Korea's current leader, back from the brink of sanctions and possibly war. But 2004 is not 1994 and heads...