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LARRY DENNISON - Port Townsend, Wash...
...perplexed by that pesky check- engine light that pops up on your dashboard, help has arrived. The CodeScout, at right, helps you figure out what is wrong by plugging into your car's diagnostic port (near steering wheel) and displaying a detailed error message. If it's just a loose gas cap, you can save a trip to the shop. Alas, some of the $150 device's messages are so cryptic, you may end up running to a mechanic to decipher them...
...asylum seekers' claims and lobbying for action on languishing cases. When lawyers are too busy to visit clients, or too far from remote detention centers, advocates frequently make the trip instead. "We do the legwork," says advocate Rossell. When Farhad's court appeal was being prepared, Bernadette Wauchope, of Port Pirie, South Australia, and another volunteer from Byron Bay, on the north coast of New South Wales, spent more than 130 hours collecting evidence that would eventually verify his claims. "The people who succeed are those who have Australian people going in there and helping them untangle the mess," says...
Longtime observers of the Middle East could be forgiven for experiencing a moment of d?j? vu in the spectacle of Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas declaring an end to hostilities in an Arab Red Sea port on Tuesday. The Sharm el-Sheik summit repeated many of the themes echoed by the two men when they met 18 months ago at the Jordanian port of Aqaba, and the resulting truce, was, then as now, hailed as a new beginning. That deal collapsed within weeks, and many of the factors that contributed to its demise have not been fundamentally altered...
When several Italian coast-guard cutters set out from the industrial port city of Taranto on that country's southeastern coast on Oct. 4, 2003, they had specific orders: to detain and board a German-flagged cargo ship called the BBC China, then heading for Libya. The seizure had, in fact, been arranged jointly by the CIA and MI6, the overseas arm of British intelligence. When the agents boarded the BBC China, what they found was anything but routine: five large containers, each carefully packed with precision machine tools, tubes and other bombmaking equipment. The containers amounted to part...