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...broadcast quality of cell-phone video on these sites is still imperfect - it's often grainy, occasionally blurry and nearly always a step below video-camera clarity. Sometimes videos freeze and audio is muffled. For those committed to higher-quality images, Eye-Fi sells a wi-fi-enabled SD memory card for digital still cameras that stores your photos and uploads them automatically via a wireless network to your home computer or to the online photo-sharing site of your choice. (The technology has surprising advantages: in June, a camera thief in Florida inadvertently turned himself in when the images...
...administrative and legal measures called the Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR) that forces the tribes to take collective responsibility for the actions of their members. Justice follows the tribal code and is meted out by clan elders who consult in public gatherings called jirgas. It was an imperfect solution to a difficult problem. But when al-Qaeda leaders fled Afghanistan in the wake of the 2001 war on their Taliban hosts and took refuge in the tribal areas, it became downright dangerous...
...Colonel Getchell has come up with an imperfect solution. "Because Captain Rahman's English is excellent, I think he is going to become a translator for Coalition forces," says the U.S. officer. "This is not his first choice. He wants to be a police commander, but that's not possible right now. But maybe in six months, a year, after everything has cooled down, he could be an officer again...
...nation's highest rates of childhood obesity--is in the vanguard. Led by Joseph Thompson, director of the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement, the state in 2004 began tracking the BMI of more than 400,000 children, sending home confidential health reports to parents. BMI is an imperfect metric since it often mistakes a stocky or muscular kid for an obese one, but as a quick way to spot weight problems it can reveal a lot. Officials also eliminated junk-food vending machines in all elementary schools--a policy that's becoming more common around the U.S.--and added half...
...Total Daze" And yet the battlefield seems an imperfect environment for widespread prescription of these medicines. LeJeune, who spent 15 months in Iraq before returning home in May 2004, says many more troops need help - pharmaceutical or otherwise - but don't get it because of fears that it will hurt their chance for promotion. "They don't want to destroy their career or make everybody go in a convoy to pick up your prescription," says LeJeune, now 34 and living in Utah. "In the civilian world, when you have a problem, you go to the doctor, and you have therapy...