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Self-Service Autos. Some airport-based Hertz centers feature the SimplyWheelz program, which allows customers to reserve cars online, then use a kiosk instead of an agent upon arrival to process the rental. The kiosk will print out a rental agreement that tells you which car is yours and where it's parked. You simply find your car and the keys will be inside. The test program has been operating in the Orlando airport for about a year; in November it expanded to airports in Los Angeles, San Diego, Miami and West Palm Beach. On Dec. 1, it will...
...rule out the myriad other toxic chemicals that soldiers faced on the ground, including "hundreds of burning oil-well fires that turned the Kuwaiti sky black with smoke, dramatic reports of uranium-tipped munitions, sandstorms, secret vaccines, and frequent chemical alarms, along with the government's acknowledgement of nerve-agent releases in theater ... Studies have also indicated that Gulf War veterans developed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) [also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease] at twice the rate of nondeployed veterans, and that those stationed downwind from the Khamisiyah munitions demolitions have died from brain cancer at twice the rate...
...faint of heart - and not just because of its length. It serves as a grim reminder that sometimes a soldier's greatest enemy is the government he or she is fighting for. As the panel notes, it took nearly 20 years before the U.S. admitted that its use of Agent Orange had adversely affected soldiers during Vietnam, and it's taken just as long for Gulf War veterans to get GWI recognized as an actual medical condition. As the report's authors state, "addressing the serious and persistent health problems that affect Gulf War veterans as a result of their...
Featuring a key-note address by a former CIA agent, traditional bánh-mì Vietnamese sandwiches, and a “sexual” poetry reading, the third summit for the New England Union of Vietnamese Student Associations brought together Vietnamese students from nine different schools in a two-day event hosted by the Harvard Vietnamese Association this weekend. “We tailored the entire summit program to expose students to Vietnam not only in terms of its history and culture, but also modern Vietnam in an economic and political sense,” said...
...wonderful Mathieu Amalric), to get closer to the Bolivian general who killed her family. Lest the two spies seem like a dour pair, Haggis and Forster let them off the leash every now and then. Despite Vesper’s painfully felt absence, Bond still lets himself seduce fellow agent Strawberry Fields (no joke), while a tipsy Camille takes pleasure in haranguing Greene in front of several wealthy donors at a party. You could almost imagine the two dating. Forster’s trigger finger itches through the whole movie (I don’t think there are more than...