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...handy new $90 gadget is designed to measure the health of any car made in 1996 or later. The little device plugs into a port below your car's dashboard and presents a red, yellow or green light to let you know if there's something wrong with the vehicle's electronics. It won't tell you if your tire pressure is low or give you a detailed breakdown on all of the car's systems. But it will give you a quick sense of what the problem is likely to be, if there is one, and even estimate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Five Funkiest New Gadgets | 1/9/2007 | See Source »

...billion dollars a year on the medical side, and that’s about what we spend on combat in two weeks.”A failure to allocate such funds in favor of increasing troop presence would be irresponsible, said Bilmes.“It’s wrong to spend all this money necessary to do a surge when we’re not coughing up the money to help these guys when they come home,” she said.The VA itself has been publicly skeptical of the new study, with one of their spokesmen stating...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Veteran Care Could Cost $700 B | 1/8/2007 | See Source »

...once too cynical to think an undergraduate education would change me at all. I was wrong, for a transformation has taken place. My education—including what I took to be obscure and trivial accoutrements—has subtly made me into a citizen of the world. Such a fellow may well be more an oddity in Montana, but he’s surely relevant elsewhere. Right? Maybe? Dean Gross...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla | Title: Internationalism Everywhere | 1/8/2007 | See Source »

Nancy Hopkins ’64, the MIT biology professor who walked out on Summers’ 2005 women in science speech and told reporters that Summers remarks had made her physically ill, said it would be wrong to associate the choice of a female president with the Summers scandal...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett and Katherine M. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Woman To Take the Lead? | 1/8/2007 | See Source »

...This holiday season, though, Rio's organized crime proved me wrong. In the early hours of Dec. 28, the drug gangs that control most of Rio's 600-odd favelas, or shantytowns, launched a coordinated series of attacks across the famously beautiful city. In the most horrific incident, thugs torched an interstate bus with the passengers still on it, burning eight people alive. It was an unmistakeable message to authorities on the eve of new governor Sergio Cabral's swearing-in: we will not sit back and let you curtail the cocaine and marijuana dealings that bring us millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime Takes the Holidays | 1/7/2007 | See Source »

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