Word: kit
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...workers including police, building inspectors and social workers, and to remotely monitor infrastructure such as parking meters and cctv cameras. But governments usually mention economic competitiveness as their primary justification. "We see this to be an enabler for new opportunities, new businesses, and to attract new companies," says Yeng Kit Chan, head of Singapore's Infocomm Development Authority. "Without this new infrastructure Singapore would not have an edge over other locations." Late last year, Singapore said it would invest $20 million in a wireless project that will provide Internet access in public places such as parks, hotels and malls...
...second trial was scheduled to begin last spring. This time, Bowen refused to comply with the court-ordered language ban, which had been expanded to include the terms "sexual assault kit" and "sexual assault nurse." On Bowen's behalf, protesters demonstrated outside the Lincoln courthouse, and a petition, which Bowen signed, circulated on the Internet to change Nebraska law. Because of the publicity surrounding the case, Judge Cheuvront declared a mistrial during jury selection, accusing Bowen of inciting public furor over her case. "Ms. Bowen and her friends hoped to intimidate this court and interfere with the selection...
ATTACK PACK Officials in Sydney are urging every citizen to make an emergency kit--called a Go-Bag--that contains survival tools such as maps and radios. Authorities are stressing preparedness in case of terrorism or natural disaster...
...arthritis. Al-Abed and his team are hard at work trying to figure out if this or some other mechanism is what damages sperm, but they're already trying to make use of what they know so far. Within the two years, they hope to develop a home-testing kit that can help men measure their MIF levels if they even suspect a problem. Further down the line, it may be possible for doctors to administer MIF to men who don't produce enough, or chemically counteract it in those who produce too much. It might even be possible...
...part because it was Michael Cunningham, author of the book The Hours, another stupefying exercise in unspoken angst, who was hired to punch up the script Susan Minot was trying to make out of her novel. They share screenplay credit for Evening, but even in the press kit you can sense her loathing for his work. He's sort of Henry James without the cojones and definitely the most constipated sensibility the literary community has lately been in awe of. But I suspect that the director, Lajos Koltai, a Hungarian, has even more to do with the film's inertness...