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...alleged militants. Indonesia has won removal from the Financial Action Task Force's list of nations not complying with global standards on fighting money laundering and terror, and earned praise from the U.S. State Department, which lauds its "new urgency on counterterrorism." The International Crisis Group's Southeast Asia project director, Sidney Jones, probably the world's leading expert on Indonesian terror, agrees, concluding that J.I. is "certainly much weaker" today than ever before...
...only connection to the network that powers the Internet was a submarine cable running from Portugal down the west coast of Africa. Now the International Finance Corp., the private-sector arm of the World Bank Group, is investing up to $32.5 million in an undersea fiber-optic-cable project called the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy), reaching approximately 250 million more people. Here are the parts of Africa that will be newly wired...
...punk scene here does grate heavily on modern Chinese society's expectations. Some punks drink and smoke marijuana, and the image they project is to many, as Campbell puts it, "a turnoff." The government doesn't approve of skateboarding and riding in public places because of the physical damage the kids cause. But its greatest drawback is something deeper: its anti-commercial philosophy...
Almost a week after a Minneapolis bridge unexpectedly collapsed, National Transportation Safety Board investigators are struggling to determine the catastrophe's cause. They are considering factors such as wear and tear, weather, or the weight of a construction project taking place at the time that closed half of the bridge's eight lanes. But within the next decade, engineers hope to have technology in place that will allow the bridges themselves to notify officials when something is out of whack, giving governments the opportunity to fix problems before a disaster occurs...
Farrar agrees and says the Los Alamos lab has been testing sensors on bridges for the last 10 years, but that the technology is not yet ready for implementation. His team is about a year and a half into a four-year project to test and develop this technology, and it will be tried out on a New Mexico bridge at the end of the month. He expects that after the project is completed, it will still be a year or more before these new sensors for infrastructure become commercially available...