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...provide other antemortem information such as the victims' medical records. Unique marks--moles, scars, tattoos--can also prove decisive in making a positive identification. All these data are fed into computers at the DVI Information Management Center in Phuket, which tries to match victims to families. "It isn't rocket science," says Robert Jensen, president of Houston-based disaster-management firm Kenyon, which is doing forensic and mortuary work. "It's harder than rocket science because it's blended with human emotion...
...administration fees. This figure is in comparison to the 15 to 20 percent companies in Chile are charging their clients to maintain retirement accounts in the country’s privatized system. Moreover, despite its imperfections, the current system provides something privatization cannot: reliability. Just as stock markets rocket up, they also tumble down, often for years at a time. While the current system does not leave the possibility of “making it big” in retirement through high times in the markets, it also does not allow for retirees to be left out hung...
...Bombs Along the Border? Your notebook item "bordering on Nukes?" [Nov. 22] reported on al-Qaeda's possible plans to smuggle nuclear material into the U.S. from Mexico. Not to worry. We'll take them out at the border with one of those billion-dollar antimissile defense rockets recently installed in Alaska. They can't seem to hit many test targets, but surely one rocket could hit a terrorist driving a pickup across the border. Couldn't it? John Reid Portland...
Even the heavily armored humvees, as Rumsfeld inelegantly reminded the troops last week, aren't fail-safe: 120 have been destroyed in combat in Iraq. Unlike M1 tanks, even beefed-up humvees can't always stop a rocket-propelled grenade or .50-cal. machine-gun bullet from killing those inside. But they are built to halt armor-piercing 7.62-mm rounds--the kind of bullets fired from AK-47s, an insurgent favorite. The roof is engineered to thwart the blast of a 155-mm artillery shell exploding overhead, and the floor is reinforced to protect passengers from a bomb...
...Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, from eccentric writer/director Wes Anderson, never completely sinks, but for the first time in his career, Anderson seems to have put his creative steamship on autopilot. As his body of work, beginning with 1996’s lovably lost Bottle Rocket through 1998’s academic oddball Rushmore and 2001’s family jewel The Royal Tenenbaums, has gradually gained cohesion and complexity, the sloppy ponderousness of The Life Aquatic reveals an ambitious talent in desperate need of a better editor...