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...White House argues that it has increased homeland-security funds significantly. That's true, sort of: there are all those uniformed people at airports; there are larger stocks of vaccines and antibiotics. More money has gone to border patrol and - just recently - to port security. But there's an element of three-card monte here: money slops from pot to pot, and the totals remain unchanged. On the ground, the situation is largely unchanged too. Nicholas Scoppetta, the New York City fire commissioner, says the Federal Government replaced all 91 fire trucks destroyed on Sept. 11, but it hasn...
...preoccupied by Iraq, the two sides will continue talking past each other. That will allow room for a misstep or accident to be dangerously misinterpreted by the other side. As tension builds, it might not take more than a few bullets fired in the DMZ or a patrol boat straying across a disputed demarcation line to trigger full mobilization. North Korea's next move could be the test firing of a missile like the one that flew over Japan in 1998. Other even more dangerous provocations are possible. Gordon Flake, a Korea expert at the Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs...
...John," one of the SOG's paramilitary officers, unexpectedly found himself peering out the open window of a Soviet-made Mi-17 helicopter that day as it soared over the Anjuman Pass and into the Panjshir Valley, northeast of Kabul. Just ahead on the ground, John spotted a patrol of bearded men in turbans toting AK-47 rifles...
...nodded in rueful recognition. Mauldin combined the satiric eye and brush of a Daumier with the ear of a Ring Lardner. He captioned a drawing of a sergeant addressing his bedraggled men: "I need a couple guys what don't owe me no money for a little routine patrol." His war works won Mauldin a Pulitzer Prize in 1945, and the 23-year-old, who'd grown up poor in the Southwest, found himself an uncomfortable celebrity. "If I see a stuffed shirt," he once remarked, "I want to punch it." Mauldin won his second Pulitzer for a cartoon...
...more positive (and pricey) teaching tool? Try the ER2 from Evolution Robotics (available this fall for roughly $2,000). This Jetsonsesque servant can read books placed in front of it, even upside down. It can also be programmed to play a CD just by looking at its cover or patrol the house, taking security snapshots. ER2 is the first consumer robot to move autonomously on the basis of its vision, so the cat can't trip it up. Stairs, alas, are still a problem...