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...Numbers 8 Number of minutes the U.S.'s terror-alert level was raised to red last Wednesday, when an errant plane entered restricted airspace in Washington, D.C. 35,200 Number of people evacuated from the White House, Capitol and adjacent office buildings before the all-clear was sounded...
...Number of minutes the terrorism-alert level was raised to red last Wednesday after an errant plane entered restricted airspace in Washington
...Patients like Willie face a terrible fate. Relentless and always fatal, MND kills motor neurones, the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that activate muscles. As muscles stop working, sufferers lose the ability to speak, walk and even cough, but their minds remain alert, horribly aware of the spreading paralysis. No one knows what causes the disease, and most patients die when their breathing fails. By late last year, with Willie unable to speak and finding it so hard to swallow she could barely eat, the couple were willing to try anything...
...border. Hours before the Libyan's arrest was made public last Wednesday, two Pakistani journalists received telephone calls from men identifying themselves as al-Qaeda. The callers asked that news of al-Libbi's arrest be broadcast, hoping to dissuade other operatives from trying to contact him and to alert his associates to flee before U.S. and Pakistani authorities could track them down. When asked how he knew that al-Libbi had been caught, the caller replied, "Because he used to be with us." The U.S. is hoping al-Libbi kept good company. --With reporting by Sayed Talat Hussain/Islamabad, Rahimullah...
...next time you're motoring through the United Arab Emirates, you might want to keep an eye on the speedometer. As part of a $125 million deal, IBM will next year start equipping tens of thousands of cars, commercial trucks and government autos with devices to alert drivers--and authorities--when vehicles are speeding. The technology, which includes a GPS and two-way communications link, is meant to stem the U.A.E.'s record of auto fatalities--38 a year per 100,000 citizens, which is more than twice that of the U.S. Privacy issues notwithstanding, with all that data government...