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...highway bill pending before Congress would instruct all 50 states to require all motorists convicted of driving under the influence to equip their cars with interlock systems that shut down a vehicle when a measured amount of alcohol is detected. (See the most important cars of all time...
...United States must increase troop levels in Afghanistan, help limit the country’s drug cultivation, and train and equip the nation’s armed forces, the nation’s ambassador to the United States said at a JFK Jr. Forum event last night. Ambassador Said T. Jawad said the troubled Middle-Eastern nation—which became a focus of U.S. anti-terrorism efforts following the September 11 attacks—has struggled to rebuild, as the United States shifted its resources toward Iraq. “State building became uncoordinated,” Jawad said...
...media hypes it up to be: Most people in developing countries find ways to eat and meet their psychological needs each day, although it’s certainly a struggle. OLPC admits that its task is not to cover the basic basics or ease every ill. It is to equip people to improve their lives on their own terms...
...company is spending $30 million to upgrade most of its helicopters with night vision goggles, terrain awareness systems, and technologies that track flight progress and weather. Air Methods will spend another $30 million training its pilots to use the new systems, plus $1 million a year to equip and staff an operational control center that monitors all flights. "We're going above and beyond what the rules require," Foster says...
...decades, a succession of Pakistani military leaders have made it a point to support, finance, equip and train Islamist militants to conduct terrorist operations in India. The logic is clear: it is more cost-effective to bleed India from within than to challenge it through more conventional military means. Kashmiri militancy against Indian rule has been fomented and supported by Pakistan, though India's own domestic problems--including the occasional eruption of Hindu-Muslim clashes, notably a 2002 pogrom against Muslims in the state of Gujarat--offered a crucial opportunity to recruit disaffected Indian Muslims to the cause of violence...