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...also disturbed by whoever picks the music for A’s games. During Rickey Henderson’s pregame ceremony, they played music straight out of Pirates of the Caribbean and as the A’s took the field at the top of the game, some eerie Nancy Sinatra-like song piped in through the speakers. Didn’t really scream “Play ball...
When I graduated from university in 1982 most of my friends took a year or more to find a suitable job, and my own field, biology, was disastrous. So I went abroad. Back in my homeland after 18 years in three countries on three continents, I have still not reached the material level of my parents, but I have not had a boring life; I've never had to apply for unemployment benefits and my children are happy about their multicultural background. A bad situation creates wonderful chances. Benno ter Kuile, AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS...
...LAPD's data storage is a particular concern, Stanley says. Before putting the scanners in the field, the department met with the ACLU and discussed concerns, according to LAPD Commander Patrick Gannon. "We would like to be able to use them for other things, but there was a lot of push back on that, and so they are limited to certain units and uses like auto theft," Gannon says. (See 50 essential travel tips...
...crash epidemic": Truck drivers were 23.2 times more likely to get into a crash or near crash than drivers who weren't distracted. This correlates to the length of time a texting driver's eyes were off the road - almost five seconds, long enough to cover a football field at highway speeds. Given the increasing popularity of texting - it's grown tenfold in the last three years, by one count - it could swiftly become an enormous peril to road safety...
...Baer, a former Middle East CIA field officer, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower. Memarian is an Iranian journalist and blogger who received Human Rights Watch's highest honor...