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However, few U.S. law enforcement agencies have the forensic tools at hand and criminals often exploit that advantage, stymieing investigators with simple if crude methods. Drug dealers, Mislan says, will buy throwaway phones, assign distinctive rings to customers or suppliers, and then destroy the screen, leading an arresting officer to believe the phone is broken or the phone's information is inaccessible. (Old-style forensics often means laboriously photographing cell phone screen after cell phone screen to record evidence...
...After the war, Hizballah launched a campaign to topple the current American-supported Lebanese government, which it accuses of collaborating with Israel to destroy Hizballah's existence as a state within the Lebanese state. But the Hizballah-led opposition campaign has stalled - they've been stuck in protest tent camps in downtown Beirut for the last eight months - in part because many Lebanese resent the fact that Hizballah unilaterally sparked a war that ended with almost 2,000 dead and billions of dollars in damage...
...tends to think of the bones as inert, calcified structures, but they are, in fact, active tissues that constantly renew themselves. Cells called osteoblasts continually build new bone, while osteoclasts destroy old bone. What the new research shows is that the bones also act as a kind of endocrine organ. They release a hormone called osteocalcin that not only acts locally to influence bone formation, but also increases the production of insulin in the pancreas, raises the body's sensitivity to insulin and reduces stores...
...true (nobody wants a son, daughter, husband or wife involved in a war), what Americans desire even more is victory. Without victory, every sacrifice made by U.S. servicemen and -women and their families will be pointless. Wars are not won easily. We have an enemy that has vowed to destroy us. If radical Islamists are not defeated, they will continue to attack us. If we fail, more Americans will die. Victory is precious, defeat devastating, and it takes time to fully achieve the former. Travis Sides, Denver...
...cannot guess how the road will transform the Loba’s lives in infinite positive and negative ways. I am frightened that the road may destroy what makes the area incomparable to any other. But I am selfishly happy to have seen the windswept canyons, the brilliant red Buddhist temples, the fields of impossible green in the midst of barren browns, and the beautiful, friendly faces of the Loba before a road transforms them into a mere glimpse captured through the window of a car along a highway...