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...trucks is a tracking device similar to the transponders used on commercial jets. The device beams a truck's location by satellite to fleet managers, while a two-way messaging system allows drivers and trucking officials to stay in touch. Qualcomm Inc. of San Diego offers truckers a panic button. When it's pushed, a ping sounds in the company's network management center, a NASA-style command base with 31 computer monitors. In an emergency, an operator can alert authorities to the location of the truck in distress...
Some security advocates are asking Congress to help fund the installation of a panic button on every truck that hauls blasting agents. The Institute of Makers of Explosives, a trade group whose products are often shipped by truck, advocates federal background checks on drivers who haul explosives. "I don't mean you need a top-secret clearance," says James Ronay, a former FBI bomb expert who runs the institute. "But you need to know who that person is." Ronay's group is also pushing for a new federal licensing system for all purchases of explosives. Such licensing is now required...
...Camarota, director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies. "We lacked the sustained political will to put these things in place." Indeed Congressmen from Texas-border districts are already carping about loss of business. Worse, the INS is losing agents at the very moment it is supposed to button down the borders, because hundreds are seeking better-paying jobs as air marshals...
...game design likewise leaves little to criticize. The learning curve practically doesn't exist. One thumb-stick controls the boy, the other controls the camera. One button means jump and one means "swing at the inky monster with your stick." "Dying" is rare. It only gets frustrating when you can't figure out what to do next. But only once was I driven to find an Internet "walkthrough" for assistance. Mostly you can figure it out by jumping around and hitting things. At worst the puzzles lack a certain variety in that they all involve moving objects around and traversing...
King says he never favored rent control, which was a hot-button issue in Cambridge until a statewide resolution in 1994 ended the city’s system which limited the rent landlords could charge...