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DOBBS: The Defense Department has issued a warning about new security threats to this country. The Defense Department report shows Mexico and Pakistan could face a rapid and sudden collapse. Joining me now is Fred Burton, vice president for counter terrorism and corporate security at Statfor, also a former state department counterterrorist official. This is stark. ... this is truly troubling, that a -- one of our two closest neighbors could be facing this level of trouble. BURTON: Yes, it's no surprise to us at Stratford, we've been following this for quite sometime. The collapse in Mexico is quite systemic....

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The owner of a Michigan company who forced his employees to either quit smoking or quit their jobs said on Wednesday he also wants to tell fat workers to lose weight or else. A ban on tobacco use -- whether at home or at the workplace -- led four employees to quit their jobs last week at Okemos, Michigan-based Weyco Inc., which handles insurance claims. The workers refused to take a mandatory urine test demanded of Weyco's 200 employees by founder and sole owner Howard Weyers, a demand that he said was perfectly legal. "If you don't...