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Mandatory Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) tests for commercial truck drivers could reduce the risk of truck crashes that kill and injure thousands a year, according to a recent study by Harvard researchers...
...military, we [ethnic minorities] are like mosquitoes," says a young Arakanese Buddhist monk, who participated in the crushed antigovernment uprising of September 2007 and chafes at Burmese discrimination against his people. "We buzz in their ear, and they slap at us and don't care if they kill us." But, he adds, "there are many mosquitoes." In the end, it may be the foreign participants in this new Great Game, unschooled in how to navigate ethnic complexities, who will get bitten...
Such differing agendas help explain the unseemly bickering of the past couple weeks. Continental Europeans, with sounder banks and less fiscal room for maneuver, are rejecting U.S. calls to spend more; the U.S. and Britain, anxious not to kill off laissez-faire capitalism, are reluctant to cede to European demands for tougher global financial regulation. The old G7 countries are pushing to give the International Monetary Fund a financial boost; others distrust the IMF and want a much greater say in how it's run. Many complain that it's impossible to work with Washington because the new Administration...
...good life and done good deeds, but if you have tried to kill cops, you're going to be in trouble." -John Walsh, host of America's Most Wanted. (TIME, June...
...electricity restoration will lessen the temptation of unemployed men to drift toward insurgents who pay them to join their ranks. Still, members of an intimidated population must also feel secure enough to know that if they turn in an insurgent, they won't face revenge attacks. "You can go kill and capture [insurgents] all you want; it doesn't matter. The people have got to turn against them, and they haven't yet in Mosul because they're intimidated," Brown says. "And I don't blame them...