"Basically, they heard nothing and nobody reported anything to them.
Mr. Rodrigues said that while he was mystified by the odor, he never reported anything amiss to the police.
Before the Sentinel reported anything, Seaton, the publisher, had organized a meeting with school officials, mental-health experts, a suicide task force, and the father of a boy who had killed himself.
'I was sick of sitting by and waiting passively for the next slap in the face from the mass media, who rarely reported anything but the prosecution case,' she says.
Ishimaru said he and his colleagues had been talking daily to sources inside North Korea with connections to the regime, as well as to North Korean businessmen in China, and none had reported anything untoward in the North's political arrangements.
You could hear the awe in his voice: he told me he had never reported anything of the kind, not even in Iraq, that this was the culmination of something he had been sensing all through his career.
