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...that the videos are politically correct, don't contain bad language and aren't brutal. But maybe there are no inventions in the world that are purely positive. Tobias Hubel Augsburg, Germany Win the War! Save String! time reported that American troops in Iraq are using Silly String to detect trip wires affixed to bombs [Nov. 27]. Rather than ask civilians to mail cans of it to the troops, shouldn't we just ask Halliburton to order it by the truckload? That would make the acquisition much quicker, since the company seems to have an unlimited government expense account...
Take out your bikini! This husband-and-wife team advises avoiding "fake and fattening foods" and sticking with unrefined whole foods, such as fruits and vegetables. Oh, and exercise. (Do we detect a common theme here?) The Good Mood Diet By Susan Kleiner...
...Allen did not nitpick last night and indicated that he had not known about the lights until informed by The Crimson. “The Election Commission congratulates [Hwang-Wong] on their creativity,” he said.In fact, the Commission relies primarily on outside reports to detect infractions rather than actively seeking them out.“We’re trying to cut down on the number of patrols we’re doing because we decided that if we kept looking in certain places over and over and maybe not looking in others, there was a sort...
Last month TIME wrote about soldiers and Marines in Iraq requesting an unusual life-saving item in their care packages sent from home: Silly String. It seems that the neon plastic party streamers sprayed into an open doorway before a building search or across a darkened room can help detect nearly invisible trip wires attached to bombs and boobytraps. The old methods to detect trip wires - sweeping the space with a metal grappling hook or getting close enough for a visual inspection - just aren't as safe, Marines discovered...
...came up with a whopping 79 recommendations. Some are bold strokes, such as engaging Iran and Syria in diplomatic dialogue "without preconditions" - which Bush has so far rejected. Others get down into weeds, like Recommendation 62, which suggests that meters be installed at both ends of oil pipelines to detect thieves siphoning supplies from the middle...