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...Shutting down Guantánamo is a giant step. But, as we have learned so dearly in the past, decisive action calls for a coherent exit strategy. More crucially, the United States and its allies need a new game plan for handling international terrorist suspects—a strategy that jives with both human-rights concerns and a stronger commitment to multilateral counterterrorism...
...phenomenon on which it is advisable to have a clear grip”: in other words, he aims to prepare and protect us.Coming at the end of the book, however, the author’s stated purpose reads more like a rationalization than a graceful bow and exit. The idea behind the book is intriguing, but McGinn does not offer a thorough treatment of it. He devotes far too much time and energy to defining the concept without impressing its significance on his readers. In a world where even one dictionary citation seems like a rhetorical faux pas, three separate...
Fire Retardant On Feb. 1, 1991, USAir Flight 1493 crashed into another aircraft while landing at Los Angeles International Airport. After surviving the impact, 20 passengers and two crew members died as a result of smoke inhalation as they waited to leave at the overwing exit. During the 1980s, the FAA instituted various measures that demanded aircrafts upgrade the flammability standards of materials on board. The USAir aircraft was built before the effective date of those requirements and had not yet been modernized. All aircraft in the U.S. are now compliant. The requirements were strengthened in 1991, when...
Emergency Exits Getting to an emergency exit as quickly and safely as possible is a key factor in surviving an airplane crash. Passengers tend to take the glowing pellets that line cabin floors for granted, but until 1984, emergency lighting systems typically employed overhead lights - not much help in smoke or in a frenzied panic, during which passengers tend to keep their heads down. In 1990, the FAA took another step by requiring passengers sitting in emergency-exit seats to be willing and able to perform safety functions...
...compound's pale pink boxlike villas look altogether drab in this city of tycoons and high rollers. On Saturday, a few shirtless residents smoked cigarettes on balconies, clotheslines suspended from the railings. Potted plants unevenly line the estate's walls - behind them, perhaps, lies a vital part of the exit strategy of Robert Mugabe, the President of impoverished Zimbabwe...