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...into places it has never been before, and it has added an extra dimension to sleepy old Spokane. Elise Robertson is a 10-year veteran of the city's police force. Her squad car has a full-fledged wireless PC in it--the guts of it are in her glove compartment--with a touch-screen monitor stuck on her dashboard. If she sees a suspicious car at a stoplight, she can use the HotZone to run the suspect's plates and download arrest warrants, criminal records and affidavits to her squad car. That isn't unique. A lot of police...
...meantime, Thaksin is pursuing a policy of "an iron fist and a velvet glove" in the south?stern military action combined with more development aid. "Recruitment [by the militants] is effective because there is so much poverty," he said. "That is why poverty eradication is a major activity that we have to do." So far, however, the dual approach has failed to stop the bloodshed. Nidir Waba, one of the most senior and moderate Muslim leaders in the south, says that despite some improvements, the hard line taken by the military together with memories of the April 28 massacre create...
...their dad's easy-going sense of humor. But when it comes to the current state of our national household - children living in poverty, adults unable to secure employment, and more than 1000 dead on foreign soil - it may be time for the president to take off the iron glove and hold a house meeting...
...according to survivors interviewed by the Coalition for International Justice, a Washington-based group that studies war crimes and whose research the State Department has used for its genocide assertion. Survivors say that government helicopters targeted civilians inside the villages while Janjaweed rounded up cattle. Khartoum works "hand in glove" with the militias, says Stephanie Frease, special project manager with the coalition. "At this point, all the government has to do is fly an airplane to instill terror, to get people to move...
...follow John as he climbs up and over several rows of cattle fence to the pen where my beginner is waiting. Another John, the 7th-ranked bull rider in Australia, wraps thick tape around the wrist of my glove, as John the younger straddles the bull and helps a man who could be his father tie a rope around the bull’s flank. (This, Kimbo had explained, is what makes the bull buck, by irritating his genitals. I guess I’d be kicking and snorting...