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...still happens in mail rooms and airports: a suspicious unidentified substance turns up, and activity freezes for hours until a haz-mat team can make a safety assessment. But Ahura Corp.'s FirstDefender--a handheld instrument that recognizes thousands of chemicals--can give cops and firefighters an immediate analysis of just about any substance...
Each time Robbie Preston hit the mat last year from early December through March, the match ended with Preston’s arm raised...
...indication that India is too important a market to ignore. Thanks to a booming economy, India has 65 million mobile-phone users; the number grows more than 2 million each month. The Indian mobile-phone-services market is worth about $5 billion. And this time the welcome mat won't get yanked: earlier this year, the government permitted foreigners to own a majority stake in Indian telecoms. Prashant Singhal, a telecom expert at Ernst & Young India, expects more big deals in the next couple of years. This freer market has its hang-ups, though. Vineet Nigam, an analyst at ICRA...
...their posts and looting Cadillacs during Katrina, but now two officers stand accused of beating a retired African-American schoolteacher who they claim was drunk and resisting arrest (he denies it) in the reopened French Quarter--a brutal attack that was caught on video and left Nagin's welcome mat looking all the more tattered. The officers have pleaded not guilty to charges of battery. Nagin has promised that new acting police superintendent Warren Riley will "handle it very seriously," but Riley's record is checkered with suspensions, one involving his alleged failure to act promptly enough after a woman...
Most gay activists would rather swallow glass than say Mat Staver was right about something, but they know that last year's big UCLA survey of college freshmen found that 57% favor same-sex marriage (only about 36% of all adults do). Even as adult activists bicker in court, young Americans--including many young conservatives--are becoming thoroughly, even nonchalantly, gay- positive. From young ages, straight kids are growing up with more openly bisexual, gay and sexually uncertain classmates. In the 1960s, gay men recalled first desiring other males at an average age of 14; it was 17 for lesbians...