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...erupted anew in the capital, with dozens of Sunnis killed by Shi'ite militants in the last few days - identifying the enemy can be difficult. Shi'ites and Sunnis share a common ethnicity and have a hard time telling themselves apart. And so the killers rely on a cruder vetting process: choosing victims based on their first name, which for many Iraqis is their only religiously distinguishing characteristic...
...very thing you're trying to limit. Another possibility is nuclear thermal propulsion, which uses a larger reactor to superheat traditional propellant and blast it out the engine nozzle. Things move a lot faster with such a system, but the engine as a whole is heavier and cruder and the big reactor causes jitters among environmentalists, who would just as soon see nothing nuclear aboard any rocket that could blow up before it leaves the atmosphere. Astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz says a plasma-propulsion rocket being developed in NASA's labs will go faster still, getting man to Mars...
Trombly has said that he went to console his friend, uttering a remark critical of Byrne, and walked away as others in the small crowd shouted cruder comments...
...mobility. (Drivers in central London spend a third of their journeys at a standstill.) Rebellion has already taken hold in some corners. Newspapers and websites have shared suggestions for dodging the charge: from high-tech devices that blur the number plate at the flick of a switch to cruder tactics like rubbing mud all over the tag. Motorists Against Detection, which claims to have destroyed hundreds of speed cameras throughout the U.K., plans to torch, spray-paint and run over the congestion-fee cameras, too. "We've clearly paid for these roads already," says a member of the group...
...Panasonic) and Siemens - are all betting on an alternative system made by the London-based consortium Symbian. These manufacturers will want to convince consumers they can Web surf via phone without installing a mini-version of Windows. Assuming Opera's technology catches on, it could make big money. Earlier, cruder versions of Opera's mobile browser are currently bundled with Symbian's operating system. Opera gets a one-off licensing fee for each mobile phone sold with one of its browsers inside. Manufacturers in the Symbian consortium are expected to agree to use the same browser in future phones, meaning...