Word: carly
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...line with its pledge to keep the regime well armed, Moscow has in recent weeks been sending into Kabul large shipments of weapons and ammunition, including such advanced hardware as the BTR-70 armored car and the BM-22 rocket launcher. Western diplomats in Kabul believe that in the end the resupply effort will make little difference. Says one: "They can have all the fancy hardware they like, but it is the morale of the troops that's critical...
...announced last week that it plans to dig a $2 million ditch along a four-mile stretch of border near San Diego, where some 300,000 illegal aliens were apprehended last year. INS officials maintain that the ditch, 5 ft. deep and 14 ft. wide, will frustrate high-speed car dashes across the border, which now average 400 a month, and * also help correct drainage problems in the area. A report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform supported the idea of the ditch. "Locking uninvited gate-crashers out," it said, "is just good common sense. Everyone has the right...
...common element in these cases and in shootings at a high school in Washington and a car dealership in Norfolk, Va., was more than the threat to innocent bystanders. All involved the use of semiautomatic weapons. These fast-firing, powerful guns, capable of sending a bullet through a concrete wall, were once rare outside the military. But when the U.S. normalized relations with China, imports of Chinese weapons as well as other goods became legal. Purchases of the AK-47 copy soared from a mere 4,000 a year as recently as 1985-86 to more than 40,000 last...
...instances of sexual assault on campus renewed concerns by students and administrators over security. After a Harvard employee was raped at the Science Center in December, officials tightened security at the building, which is open 24 hours a day. Epps has also called for an expansion of the one-car police escort service, though Harvard Police has said it lacks the funds to purchase another car...
Using easy-to-follow formulas, the author demonstrates that the chance of falling victim to terrorists is less than 1 in 1.5 million (compared with, for example, 1 chance in 68,000 of choking to death or 1 in only 5,300 of dying in a car crash), that the number of possible five-card poker hands is 2,598,960 and that the size of a human cell is to that of a person as that of a person is to the size of Rhode Island. Paulos also notes that 367 people have to be gathered to ensure that...