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The security environment is such that even some government officials are not exactly optimistic about the turnout. Electricity Minister Ayham al-Samarrai, for example, predicts that the national turnout would be around 25 percent of eligible voters. The insurgent threat has also compelled the authorities to adopt strict security measures...
General Motors, Dell and Samsung--one of the leading producers of the phones--are among the companies that have prohibited employees from taking cam phones into sensitive research and production facilities, to prevent corporate espionage. Schools are banning them to halt cheating, since students have been nabbed shooting test questions...
In Somalia, even the dead don't rest in peace. Masked gunmen, allegedly in league with the powerful Islamic courts in Mogadishu, the capital, recently laid waste to an Italian colonial cemetery. After breaking open the tombs and pulling up the coffins, they dumped the human remains near the city...
The U.S. and Iraqi interim governments are committed to providing security to voters going the polls. The U.S. had hoped to keep its own troops away from the polling stations, both to avoid making them targets and because their presence there would cast an unwelcome American shadow over the proceedings...
Such a decision would enable states to pass new laws outlawing abortion (which is not exactly unlikely since state legislatures have enacted 380 measures restricting abortion since 1995 alone, even banning it outright in Louisiana and Utah) or enforce the Comstock laws still on the books in many states. This...