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...same time, Task Force Paladin, a counter-IED unit created by the Pentagon, deploys bomb specialists who monitor and defuse roadway threats downrange. Its arsenal includes radio jammers to neutralize remote-controlled devices, as well as radars that can locate mines beneath the surface. According to TF Paladin's commander, Colonel Jeffrey Jarkowsky, such improvements have reduced IED effectiveness in terms of casualties 20% over the past year...
...security throughout large swaths of the nation. Started in 2007 as a way of bringing back into the fold marginalized Sunni tribes, many of whom were cooperating with al-Qaeda, the U.S. pays tribal leaders between $240 to $300 per month for each man the tribe employs to run roadway checkpoints and generally vouchsafe the population and U.S. forces against IEDs and gunfire. While different regions report varying degrees of success, here in the Yusufiah - one point in the area once known as the Triangle of Death - the decline in violence has been dramatic and precipitous. When the Army unit...
Corrosion may have played a role here as well: the Minneapolis bridge - what's known as a deck steel truss bridge - was a concrete roadway supported by gridwork of steel. "When you use both concrete and steel like this," says William Miller, an expert on bridge engineering at Temple University in Philadelphia, "there can be chemical reactions going on where these two very different substances meet. This is especially a problem in extreme climates where water can get into the cracks between supports, freeze and expand and cause a huge amount of damage." Beyond that, says Miller, "concrete...
...work has the feel of small conceptual points inflated to large dimensions. But with the right pictures, the scale lends power and mystery. Dead Troops Talk is a fantasy of Russian soldiers massacred in Afghanistan in 1986 who have come back to life on the gray rocky roadway where they died. In an enormous tableau--the picture is 7 1/2 ft. tall and almost 14 ft. wide--they awaken to discover their own mangled flesh in shock, grief, sleepy-eyed indifference and also wild-eyed amusement...
...environmentally friendly physical plant. In Allston, campus sustainability will be a priority; all projects will be required to meet the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system’s certification. Further, the report attends to transportation concerns and includes a detailed plan for each roadway in the new development. As the Allston project continues to move forward, however, ensuring a positive undergraduate experience must remain one of the University’s top priorities. In the first phase of Allston development, Harvard plans to build four new undergraduate houses in the “northwest?...