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...July 13, 2007, Zachery's 41st birthday. He was working in the hazardous-materials unit, and a call came in from a local hospital: chemical spill. Normally, Zachery would have been behind the wheel of the truck, but on that day, he was acting captain, so he rode in the passenger seat. Siren blaring, lights flashing, horn honking - none of it registered with the driver of a city trash truck, who turned into the path of the speeding haz-mat unit. The crash folded the front of Zachery's vehicle, and his head spiderwebbed the windshield...
...stave off an eruption. How do you measure success and failure? First, we want to save lives. If there's an evacuation needed, a civil authority will call it, but we want to give them the best information so that people can be moved out of harm's way. The other category is minimizing economic and social disruption during the period of unrest surrounding an eruption. If you've got volcano unrest and you don't know the extent of the eruption, you really tend to overreact when you don't need to. We can also give practical information - telling...
...think people who are going to be attracted to this organization are going to utilize it regardless of the name,” she said. “They could call it close to absolutely anything and the same types of individuals will be attracted to participating...
...There are also some specific lessons from our experience. In many of the situations where you need to bring leaders to account, [you can apply the Sierra Leonean model of] a hybridized court, where you obtain local and international support to bring people to justice and call their bluff. The International Criminal Court is often told, "You are just prosecuting cases in Africa. You are biased against Africa." The answer, I think, is a hybrid model able to deliver the kind of cooperation that an international court sitting outside the region with an exclusively U.N. staff cannot...
...jawans who remained inside have refused to surrender arms and instead have insisted on written acceptance of their demands by the government. They have said they'll call a cease-fire only after holding talks with the Prime Minister and Home Minister Sahara Khatun (who was involved in the mutineer talks with Hasina). As the crisis continued into Thursday afternoon, Hasina addressed the nation, exhorting the soldiers to stand down. "Lay down your guns immediately and go back to barracks," she said. "Do not force me to take tough actions or push my patience beyond tolerable limits." Government officials confirmed...