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...anticorruption campaigners and some politicians have questioned the reason for the scheme and the way it has been implemented. The initial plan was that no minister - the President, Prime Minister and Vice President are exempt - be allowed to drive a car with an engine bigger than 1,800 cc. But some officials' old Mercedes have engines smaller than 1,800 cc. Should they be exempt from the change? No, said Kenyatta. Nevertheless, a few ministers have refused to turn in their luxury wheels. "We are not schoolchildren to be given uniforms in the form of Passats," Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang...
...face off, Sox Nation will call upon a new hero, Victor Martinez, who several months ago played for Cleveland. He spent most of his career there, and only two years ago faced those same Red Sox in a bitter playoff battle, then cast as a villain. He will face CC Sabathia, who also played on that Cleveland team and has been a New York icon for a few short months. Sabathia has, for the third year running, inspired the support of fans in a different city...
...fare worse. "I've never found a non-medical person abusing this drug that has ever lived," says Wischmeyer. Propofol's potency leaves very little margin for mistakes. "The terrifying thing about this drug is that it might take your stress away, but if you take one or two cc's more, you stop breathing," says Wischmeyer. "This is not like Vicodin - take too much and you get a little high. With propofol, you might not survive...
Bigg tried unsuccessfully to rouse the young man. He moved him onto a bed to help him breathe. Still no response. But about a minute after Bigg administered a 1-cc dose of naloxone, the young man's color improved and he began to come around. "He was like someone trying to go back to sleep, with his mother waking him," says Bigg...
Tony Lake can seem shy and self-effacing on the outside, but he is fiercely competitive. To get to his day job as a professor at Georgetown University, he rides on a 49.9cc Taiwanese motor scooter, wearing a gray suit, a tie, a black molded helmet and sunglasses. Pegged as an idealist, Lake has big strategies for counterterrorism and international development that have meshed naturally with Obama's belief that the Iraq invasion was an inadequate cold war--style response to 21st century problems like poverty, insecure borders and weapons proliferation. To get Obama ready for a presidential...