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...Highlight Reel: 1. The bombs: Amazingly, GAO investigators were able to smuggle in ingredients for low-cost improvised explosive devices and assemble them inside the government buildings with no trouble. Explosives were taken into facilities that included field offices for U.S Congressmen, as well as the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and other key agencies...
...Highlight Reel: 1. The totals: Collectively, Americans spent nearly 500,000 years stuck in traffic in 2007 - nearly 4.2 billion hours. That's a slight decrease from the year before. The difference amounts to about an hour per person, accounted for by high gas prices and the start of the economic slowdown. That's well over double the per-person average of 14 hours in 1982, when the annual survey began. Those in urban areas with more than a million residents have it even worse; they spent an average of 46 hours in traffic...
...Norman Vincent Peale right? Is there power in positive thinking? A study just published in the journal Psychological Science says trying to get people to think more positively can actually have the opposite effect: it can simply highlight how unhappy they are. (See pictures of people mourning the death of Michael Jackson...
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...right thing to do. I think it is going to validate the idea that we need to focus in on the areas most important to us in the beginning, because we don't have enough forces to go everywhere and do anything. I think it is going to highlight the seriousness of the situation and underpin our priorities and focus...