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...Efforts continue to pinpoint al Qaeda members: Mazar-e-Sharif intelligence chief Mohammed Anwar said the population has been warned that anyone caught harboring al Qaeda operatives will be considered a terrorist themselves; 610 agents send him information from hundreds of miles around as well as checkpoints strung across every major road. The CIA has also set up groups in every major city across the nation, he says: in addition to the intelligence officers he works with, there are agents working on propaganda to convince Afghans that Americans are in their country to help. "The mission is to take apart...
...ruled that every cell phone should have Enhanced 911 (or E911) service as a way to pinpoint the location of anyone who calls the emergency line--a mandate that gained urgency following the Sept. 11 tragedies. Global Locate, a San Jose, Calif., company that creates global-positioning-system technology, could benefit from the upgrade. The company has developed a chip (above, next to a standard microchip), about half the size of a fingernail, that can transmit a cell phone's location to the police and authorized callers (your buddy list) with GPS. What's more, the signal continues to transmit...
Drones have enabled the U.S. military to stare at enemy positions for days, providing far more intelligence than could be gleaned from a reconnaissance flight or satellite flyby. Such surveillance detects patterns, and patterns betray enemies. Beyond spying and attacking, the Predator has used its own laser to pinpoint targets for satellite-guided bombs from high-flying bombers...
...more than 500 guidebooks to state exams and sprinkles test-taking tips ("Many problems can be solved without much calculating") throughout 36 different textbooks published by McGraw-Hill. In the summer of 2000 it launched Homeroom.com an online bank of more than 120,000 practice questions, which helps teachers pinpoint their students' strengths and weak spots. Like its competitor Kaplan, The Princeton Review offers workshops to help teachers tailor their daily lessons to state exams. The firm's latest offering: a $1,950 primer for parents on test-taking skills that, among other things, instructs them to serve an extra...
...takes us a half to realize how we need to play—we need to change that,” Tubridy said. “Halftime is very valuable to us. We’re able to pinpoint what the problems...