Word: nelsons
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...auto fatalities--38 a year per 100,000 citizens, which is more than twice that of the U.S. Privacy issues notwithstanding, with all that data government will, ostensibly, be able to better deal with congestion and plan new roads. Companies could eventually cash in too, says Michael R. Nelson, director of Internet technology and strategy at IBM. With this sort of network, insurers could spot high-risk drivers (and raise their rates), and hotels and restaurants could pipe ads into cars when they're nearby. Says Nelson: "There's real money to be made providing services to all those drivers...
...there’s such a thing as an epicenter of the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry, it would probably be located by the wall in right field of Fenway Park. That corner has seen it all in the last few years—from the notorious confrontation between Jeff Nelson and a groundskeeper in game 3 of the 2003 ALCS, to Bill Mueller’s walk-off homer in the A-Rod vs. Varitek brawl game, to David Ortiz’s extra-inning blast in game 4 of last year’s ALCS...
...Monday the trial of 16 prominent members of the United Democratic Front, a large antiapartheid movement, resumed. The treason case was said to be the country's biggest political trial since Nelson Mandela, leader of the outlawed African National Congress (A.N.C.), was imprisoned for life in 1964. A few days before the latest trial began, Victoria Mxenge, a prominent black lawyer who was to have helped defend the 16, was shot to death by four unidentified blacks as she was about to enter her home outside Durban. Black leaders blamed the government, while the authorities said the slaying...
Earlier, some 225 miles to the southwest of Johannesburg, police in the Orange Free State town of Brandfort raided the house of Winnie Mandela, the wife of Nelson Mandela. They arrested 30 people after firing tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd. Mrs. Mandela, who has been banished to the remote location for the past eight years, was away at the time of the raid. She had obtained government permission to go to Johannesburg to see her doctor. In explaining their action, police said they had been stoned by protesters and then chased rioters who took refuge...
Near the tent that was to serve for the funeral service, crowds of youths had gathered. There was dancing, rhythmic chanting and waving of fists for imprisoned Black Leader Nelson Mandela. Stones were picked up, but none were thrown. Army weapons were held at the ready, but no shots were fired. Police dogs appeared atop armored cars, but none were unleashed. Police whips were brandished, but none were used...