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...cloned cars in all 50 states and reports that counterfeiters usually target high-status rides like the BMW X5 and General Motors' Cadillac Escalade and Hummer. And since not all state vehicle databases are linked, thieves can retitle cars with the same VINs in multiple states without setting off alarm bells. All of which makes buying a used car an even dicier proposition. --By Brian Bennett
That is causing alarm among U.S. officials, who see signs that the violence is spilling across the border. About 30 U.S. citizens have been kidnapped or killed in Nuevo Laredo since last summer. A clash there between local police and gang members last month culminated in a shoot-out on the Gateway to the Americas Bridge, which spans the Rio Grande and connects the town to Laredo, Texas. U.S. officials fear that recent drug slayings as far north as Dallas have involved Zeta triggermen. Last September the Zetas allegedly kidnapped Yvette Martinez, 28, a Laredo woman, along with a friend...
...islands were a heartbreaking flashback to the wider tragedy of the December tsunami, which left nearly 300,000 people dead or missing across the Indian Ocean region. But this time, it soon became clear that the region has?in just 12 weeks?become significantly better prepared to sound the alarm. Touring Nias last week, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told TIME that his country's official response to last week's quake was "faster" than to December's?and he could have been speaking for the entire Indian Ocean area...
...then many people still would have lost their lives." Thailand will have a more sophisticated system in place by the end of the month, Dharmmasaroj says. Warning towers are now being installed in areas hit by December's tsunami; they will use sirens and loudspeakers to sound an alarm. "We'll have a telecommunication system that will allow us to send out warnings to every mobile phone," he adds, "and we'll be able to cut into regular television broadcasts...
...past collected ancient Aboriginal bark coffins, complete with the bones they protected. In the 1970s he bought a demountable shed for the backyard of his outback station in western Queensland to store his collection of the rare cylinders, which he calls "assemblages." He installed climate control and a radar alarm system, and placed the bark coffins in airtight boxes to stop death beetles from attacking his skeletal charges. Walsh claims that he rejected a $A1 million offer from an overseas collector for one of the bodies, which he has described as the Australian equivalent of the pharaonic mummies from Egypt...