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...require all car manufacturers to disable cellphone use while the car is in motion. Cellphone-jamming technology not only exists, but it can also easily be made portable and moderately precise. But this approach is unnecessarily invasive, may prevent crucial emergency calls, and could be prohibitively expensive to implement retroactively...
Flores added that she was “concerned that the sponsors of the legislation did not work as passionately to implement the project as they did to pass the project...
Many observers believe that newly elected Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes will ease the Mano Duro policy and, instead, implement social programs aimed at dissuading the country's youth into joining gangs. But, says Samuel Logan, an expert on Latin American gang culture, "The current administration still has not made an effort to to adopt a less punitive position in dealing with the gangs." Ironically, one of the loudest advocates for rolling back Mano Duro ways Poveda, who photographed the El Salvaor civil war for TIME in the 1980s. Poveda said in a recent interview that El Salvador's political corruption...
...Afghanistan Meghan L. O’Sullivan has been appointed the Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs at the Kennedy School, the school announced this week. O’Sullivan, an expert on Middle Eastern politics who served as a special assistant to president George W. Bush and helped implement the Bush administration’s surge strategy in the Iraq war, has been appointed as a professor of practice. The five-year renewable professorship generally is given to those with extensive political or diplomatic experience outside of academics. “Meghan brings a combination of a really rare...
...energy subsidies in urban areas were benefiting the nonpoor. In other words, those who least needed their consumption subsidized were getting most of the benefits. In the run-up to the 2005 presidential elections, all the candidates across the political spectrum, including the subsequent winner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, promised to implement a reform of the gasoline subsidy program. Yet, as in the U.S., unlimited cheap gas was popular in Iran, and politicians were hesitant to touch...