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...liquids were so large that they were generally anchored to labs. But given the portability of this 3.5-pound tool, the TSA could quickly deploy it in airports nationwide. The gadget is simple enough to use that airport screeners and security officials with just several hours of training could monitor suspicious materials in transit. In its latest iteration, the FirstDefender can identify 2,500 liquid and solid substances. The U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center issued a recent assessment of the new handheld as an effective portable tool in detecting dangerous substances, including sarin and mustard gas: "The FirstDefender...
...This is a voluntary program. The idea that insurance companies will spend money to monitor speed is ludicrous. They are very, very cheap. And, they already have records on everything about you - your credit record, whether you've had crashes...
...Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, raised some Pentagon eyebrows last week when he suggested the U.S. Army open a recruiting station in India's capital, Delhi. By tapping into non-citizens eager to wear a U.S. Army uniform, he wrote in a column in the Christian Science Monitor, last year's shortfall of 7,000 Army recruits would evaporate. "Instead of sitting back and waiting for these people to trickle in," he says, "we could go out and find the ones we want." The Army says it's interested in the idea. "It has great promise," says Major...
...Liberty vs. Security Everyone should read managing editor Richard Stengel's "To Our Readers" column about the crossfire between the government and the press over the stories on the classified program to monitor bank records [July 10]. It was refreshing, in this era of knee-jerk vilification of the other guy's point of view, for Stengel to urge us to listen carefully to the debate, since power politics may play a role on both sides. As he reminded us, we are the judges. Audrey Mayville Winston-Salem, North Carolina...
...requires the fulfillment of several preconditions, including an agreement by Lebanon, Israel and - apparently - Syria as well as European nations on the deployment of a NATO intervention force in Lebanese territory along the Israeli-Lebanese border. Unlike the present UNIFIL peacekeeping mission, which in practice does little more than monitor events, the new force would be empowered under Chapter VII of the United Nations charter to intervene against "threats to the peace, breaches of the peace and acts of aggression...