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Better coordination is also needed. Last year army troops were closing in on cartel chieftain Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha when an A-37 air force reconnaissance jet buzzed overhead. The aircraft was on an unrelated mission, but it alerted Rodriguez Gacha to the military's presence, and he escaped. And the explosion of narcoterrorism has diverted manpower: half of DAS's 3,000 agents guard politicians and judges whose lives are at risk...
...purchasing purpose-bred dogs versus those procured from shelters, the costs of procuring and caring for animals, adjusted for inflation, have not increased significantly and still make up only a small fraction of total funds allocated for research, the bulk of which continues to go to salaries and institutional overhead...
...completely mute. To keep myself from panicking, I imagined that I wasn't in an interview with 10 Harvard students smug in their knowledge that they knew so much more than me. I pretended I was a bird, soaring well overhead, flying free and fast and far and aiming my excrement right on the tops of their heads...
...misdemeanor charges. (They were all later released.) After the arrests, some of the remaining protesters staged a march down Market Street, one of San Francisco's main thoroughfares. The marchers stalled trolley buses in the middle of the street by pulling the vehicles' rooftop poles away from the overhead wires that supply the vehicles with electric power. Another group briefly occupied a cable car, jostling passengers and posting in the window a placard bearing the slogan SILENCE=DEATH. By week's end police had arrested and released more than 400 demonstrators...
...expand Medicaid coverage for the poor. But the A.C.P. | labels such changes "tinkering," not reform -- helpful in the short run but inadequate to address the fundamental flaws in the system. In the 21-page position paper it issued last week, the group cites several such flaws, including wasteful administrative overhead that has burgeoned to 22% of medical expenses, and enormous malpractice awards that force doctors to buy expensive insurance and pass the cost on to patients. But the biggest problems, according to the A.C.P., are inadequate care for many Americans, and the "complex, confusing, costly, wasteful and intrusive" bureaucracy involved...