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...this was no Desert Storm,” Carter said. “This was a war, God forbid, that would take place in the suburbs of Seoul...
...Department of Defense (DOD) also tracks humans with RFID. For the first time in a war zone, the Navy's Fleet Hospital 3 kept tabs on wounded soldiers, civilians and POWS at its 116-bed facility in the Iraqi desert by using wristbands with RFID chips. By scanning the wristbands, medical personnel could access treatment and track patients in a central database. "In Iraq the real challenge was tracking noncombatants, but ultimately we hope every soldier will have an RFID tag," says Lisa Mantock, president of Texas-based ScenPro, which developed the software. Using similar technology, Calipatria State Prison...
...countdown has begun. this fall, china will send a Long March 2F rocket hurtling into space from a remote launch facility near the Gobi Desert. The payload: Shenzhou, or "Divine Vessel," a capsule carrying China's first astronauts. The mission: enter a low Earth orbit for up to a week, then parachute back to a landing zone on the Mongolian steppe. The goal: elevate China into the exclusive ranks of spacefaring nations...
POROUS BORDER The 506-mile (814-km) border with Iraq is a largely uninhabited, vast stretch of open desert. The Saudis say those attempting to cross could easily be spotted by patrols...
...Australia forcibly imprisons all its refugees in isolated, desert camps until they gain permission to remain or a ticket to another country?processes that can take years. It's the only nation in the world to do so. Refugees, without committing an offence, are the sole group in Australia who can be imprisoned indefinitely by order of Parliament?and no courts may order their release. These policies, widely condemned by the international community, are the target of From Nothing to Zero?a grim compilation of letters written in captivity, plaintive testaments and fierce counterblasts of a wretched Untermensch that came...