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...obey most of them as it is," Becker said. He said that he wears a helmet and has reflectors on his pedals, but no bell...
Police suggested bikers wear a helmet and reflective clothing, use a bell and install bike lights and reflectors...
...night fell, we camped on high ground where we would be less vulnerable to attack than down in the valley. The usual tumult of rattling pots, squealing animals, shouting men and billowing fires began. I threw down my pack, my carbine, my helmet damp with cold sweat, and slumped to the ground. I felt drained. The lark was over. The exhilaration of a cocky 25-year-old American had evaporated in a single burst of gunfire. Somebody got killed today. Somebody was liable to get killed tomorrow, and the day after. This was not war movies on a Saturday afternoon...
...Army hopes to "digitize the battlefield" by linking every soldier and weapons system electronically. A research team led by Motorola and the Army R.-and-D. lab in Natick, Massachusetts, plans to unveil next year a prototype of the equipment that the "21st century land warrior" will have. His helmet will be fitted with microphones and earphones for communications, night-vision goggles and thermal-imaging sensors to see in the dark, along with a heads-up display in front of his eyes to show him where he is on the ground and give him constant intelligence updates...
After almost 60 years on the sidelines, in Lopez the court announced its willingness to get back into the business of drawing boundaries between federal and state authority. Brady Law restrictions on handgun sales, motorcycle-helmet requirements, the "motor-voter" program that requires states to let people register to vote when applying for a driver's license--after Lopez, all those could now be accused of resting on a thinly stretched interpretation of how the activity in question affects the national economy. But the ruling is no clear gift to Republicans. Federal crime-control measures that forbid everything from domestic...