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...says a senior officer based on Sumatra's east coast, is "poorly paid, poorly equipped and poorly motivated. The government can't even pay our wages on time or in full, and often we can't go out on patrol anyway because we don't have enough money for fuel. The pirates have faster boats, plenty of cash and better intelligence. We don't stand a chance." Hari Sabarno, until recently Indonesia's Security Minister, admits, "We do not have enough resources." The IMB's director, Captain Pottengal Mukundan, sums up: "Indonesia is the problem...
Where is the money now? The U.S. has frozen more than $6 billion of Iraqi assets worldwide, meaning billions remain unaccounted for. Some congressional officials are worried that the money is helping fuel the insurgency in Iraq. --By Perry Bacon...
...gasoline and diesel are expected to account for nearly half of the country's oil demand. Last month Beijing approved its first fuel-efficiency standards for passenger vehicles, which will begin to take effect in 2005 and will be more stringent than those in the U.S. Toyota plans to manufacture the Prius, its hybrid gasoline-electric car, in China, where it hopes the clean vehicle will find a significant market. Beijing's government, meanwhile, is working to develop electric cars before 2008, and GM is working with the Shanghai Automotive Group on a hybrid-bus design...
...Cars in the D.C. area now powered by hydrogen fuel cells, all part of a congressional fleet...
...fact, their job is to be live weight--or at least ballast. They are steady, difficult to impress and maddeningly unromantic. "If we're in the studio trying to build the rocket," says Bono, "Edge is under the hood with his slide rule, I'm trying to become fuel, Larry is pointing out the reasons it'll never fly, and Adam's asking, 'Do we really want to go there?' They're always reasonable and usually correct--and I hate them...