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Ridge insists that on the whole, the country is safer than it was on Sept. 11. "Let me count the ways," he says, rattling off improvements in aviation security--from the hiring of 45,000 new federal screeners to the hardening of cockpit doors. Ridge says the Administration has improved communication between the FBI and the CIA, struck agreements with Mexico and Canada to tighten border controls and upgraded the "push packs" of medicines that can be dispatched to cities hit by biological or chemical attacks...
...only in Michigan but in other states that produce SUV components. Which is partly why SUVs live in a kind of unprickable bubble in Washington. SUVs can get horrible gas mileage because the 1975 law that created fuel-efficiency standards made a distinction between cars and light trucks. (SUVs count as trucks because of their weight and off-road capability.) Everyone agrees that when the fuel-efficiency law was passed, Congress had no intention of exempting a huge class of passenger vehicles from regulation; SUVs didn't really exist back then. There were only the precursors--the Jeep, the Chevy...
...don’t know how many specimens are in that drawer, but lots,” Boss says. “No one would be foolish enough to try to count the total number of specimens here. It’s easy to get into the millions.” As he speaks, he touches a padded case holding a few tiny Atlantic abalone shells. “These are rare, very hard to get,” Boss says...
...staying street smart are always wise choices, and students making the trip at night should try to follow such steps. But it is no less essential for HUPD and CPD to prevent information delays like the one that took place last week, from happening again. Perhaps students should count themselves lucky if walking to the Quad is the greatest danger they face—but it is a danger nonetheless...
Sebastian Anderle ’06 stands out in a crowd. On a good day, he tops off at 6’11”, and, as his brunch choices indicate, it takes a lot of food to keep a body that size running. At final count, it was four chicken breast filets, and about as many eggs as those chicken produced in a month...