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...Washington Post reports that government experts know that lots of lives might be saved in the next terrorist attack if people had certain basic information: how to seal a room with duct tape or avoid radiation from a dirty bomb. But they don't trust people with the information, the paper quotes an official as saying, because "we're not in the business of terrifying the public." So members of Congress have evacuation routes, but the general population does not, despite the fact that a year ago the premise that people panic in a crisis was put to the ultimate...
...usual drills. Some soldiers don't have shoes to wear. Government coffers are nearly empty, and salaries have not been paid for months. In early July Khatol spent the better part of her days hounding officials in the Defense Ministry to provide her men with clothing and basic sports gear. "We don't even have a real net for volleyball," she says, watching a group of officers hit a ball in preparation for a match against the International Security Assistance Force...
...your basic, impossible 24/7 task. Fortunately, 31 years with Customs in Detroit has taught Anderson a thing or two about spotting liars. He is a classic American character with a deep faith and a laconic style inherited from his coal-miner father. Colleagues saw zero change in him after Sept. 11. "Doing it over 30 years, he doesn't get rattled," says his friend Bill Wisman, chief inspector for passenger-vehicle operations at the bridge and the Detroit-Windsor tunnel. "All I've seen in him," says his wife Linda, "is greater determination." On April 26, Linda awoke around...
...with no charge, no access to lawyer or visitors, no warrant and no warning. By making Padilla the first American citizen in the war against terrorism to be held without charges inside the U.S., the government had ignited a debate about whether it has the power to strip basic constitutional protections from its citizens. As Newman saw it, President George W. Bush had stolen her client, and it was her job to get him back...
...warming. Their decision means the treaty, including its system of trading rights to emit carbon, should now be able to take effect. Other achievements of the summit included an agreement on water and sanitation. Governments pledged to halve the number of people (about 1.1 billion) lacking clean water and basic sanitation by 2015. Delegates also agreed that international trade deals will no longer be able to ignore environment treaties' development and ecology goals. And governments promised to take action to help the poor gain access to affordable energy, though they didn't agree on targets to boost the share...