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...captive after the man breached their hideout. The squad was conducting a mission on May 11 last year near the city of Iskandariyah, which is 30 miles south of Baghdad and the southern-most point of Iraq's infamous "Triangle of Death." Vela is also accused of helping to plant an AK-47 on the body to make the kill look more justified. If found guilty of murder, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. Two other soldiers have already been tried on similar charges in the same death, as well as the deaths of two other Iraqis...
...society. Why is it that a person can be tried for a moving violation in a vehicle if they were not a human, but a cyborg, when they committed the infraction? Can the car be blamed? I think a dog can probably be a cyborg, too, but can a plant? Or does it require some sort of conscious autonomy? Where does Lamp fit into all of this? If we get the fuel that runs our robots from oil, which comes from dead dinosaurs, can they truly be distinguished from organic material? Also, is there...
...that only in the past five years or so did Germans look up and start worrying about the costs of globalization, and their concerns seem to be growing. Last month the country rose as one in protest when Finnish mobile-phone giant Nokia announced it was shutting down its plant in the Rhineland city of Bochum to move to Romania, threatening 2,300 German jobs. When the local SPD branch called for a nationwide boycott of Nokia products, billboards blared NO NOKIA all the way to Berlin. Some 56% of Germans in one poll say they're ready to sign...
...think I have seen a more impressive layout at a facility, and I have seen some extraordinary facilities," he gushed a few hours earlier, after touring a coupon-making ValPak plant in Largo...
While flowers have frequently provided inspiration for textiles, a more unexpected plant pattern is taking root. "Faux bois, which means false wood, is one of my favorite designs," says Martha Stewart, whose collection for Macy's includes faux-bois towels that have generated much excitement in the design blogosphere. "Faux bois is very important in many of our designs and works for contemporary as well as traditional home owners," she explains...