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...Marine amphibious assault vehicle consisted of three antitank mines stacked one on top of another and buried in the road. Also, U.S. intelligence officials say, insurgents have begun using shaped bombs, which concentrate the blast to pierce armor, and setting secondary devices to detonate when explosive-ordnance-disposal personnel arrive at the scene--tactics used to great effect by Hizballah in Lebanon against Israeli forces. Insurgent bombers constantly monitor and test the range of U.S. electronic jammers to try to detonate explosives outside the jammers' reach. The rebels are increasing payloads in car bombs to as much...
...Gaza fence - not even Israeli military helicopters are allowed to fly directly above Gaza for fear of ground-to-air missiles. A single road to the settlements winds through groves of Eucalyptus trees. At the side of the checkpoint, there is a wide, flat, dusty square lined with armored personnel carriers and olive drab military tents. If protesters against the withdrawal get this far, the army needs to have enough soldiers here to stop them...
...Atlantis's backup for a mission tentatively scheduled for September. Had Discovery touched down in Florida, of course, it would have been easier to stick to their time-table. Before that next mission, NASA must continue to answer questions about foam debris. The growing consensus, however, is that personnel walking on the craft during preparations may have accidentally dented the external fuel tank, leading to the dislodged foam. In other words, NASA is beginning to think that is was not a problem with tank design...
...hounding doctors. Answer: Because the DEA can't catch the real drug dealers. So the agency took a cue straight from the White House: if you can't capture Osama bin Laden, go after Saddam Hussein. As bad as it sounds, I would like DEA personnel to experience intense pain. If, like the rest of us, they had to suffer the consequences of the DEA's incompetent attack on painkiller abuse, maybe that would put an end to this nonsense...
SCHOOLKIDS AND PESTICIDES Farmers and building managers rely on pesticides to keep bugs at bay, but they should probably be more careful about spraying in or near schools. There were 2,593 cases of acute pesticide-related illnesses among U.S. schoolkids and school personnel from 1998 to 2002, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported last week. The rates are still low--7.4 cases per 1 million kids--but they are on the rise...