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...system that ranks 49th in the country, prisons designed for 12,000 inmates that now have 27,000 crammed in them, and so few state troopers that after midnight only a half dozen patrol 67,500 miles of road. The state?s regressive tax system, whose burden now falls heaviest on low-income earners, is ?immoral,? he says. ?And taking care of the poor is the right thing...
...line of work--collaborating with cellular giant NTT DoCoMo, which was developing Internet-enabled mobile phones and needed partners to provide new content and services. Ogawa, 37 and single, focused on the one subject she knew mattered most to the young women who were--and still are--Japan's heaviest cell-phone users. "What are university girls most interested in?" she asks in her Tokyo office. "Love...
...Hmong say they are too ill-equipped to strike back. Most of their fighters are armed with ancient M-16s and AK-47s, and the heaviest weapons at their disposal are two geriatric M-79 grenade launchers. Ammunition is mostly dug up from former U.S. air bases. According to Moua, only a third of the rounds are actually live, negating Hmong chances of launching a viable offensive. As for the Lao government, which declined to talk to TIME, it denies allegations that it is decimating Hmong rebels and blames them for much of the unrest in the country. It insists...
...player Jesseka Bartholomew is poised to make her last run as team captain. Bartholomew has hit .379 so far, but her performance at the plate has not been enough to overcome the youth around her through Yale’s 10-16 pre-Ivy start. The youth is heaviest in the Bulldog pitching staff, which regularly deploys three freshmen. Beth Pavlicek has been the best of bunch with a 6-2 record and a 1.12 ERA. Her teammates in the circle have been solid, but they have not been able to match the near-perfect performances required...
...battle rages, fierce and bloody, perhaps the heaviest fighting northern Iraq has seen so far in this war. U.S. special forces are here, along with their Kurdish allies, facing down Ansar al-Islam, the diehard terrorist group based in Kurdish-controlled Iraq that the Americans believe is linked to al-Qaeda. "There are three or four isolated pockets of Ansar on very high ground. We're closing in on them from everywhere we can," says an American commando named Mark, who declined to give his rank or surname. All Saturday afternoon the Ansar fighters rain down sniper and machine...