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...stabilize post-Saddam Iraq. Trying to do the job with around 135,000--roughly 1 American for every 210 Iraqis--exposed a part of the spectrum that the U.S. could not fully dominate: the Arab street. U.S. soldiers patrolling strife-torn cities could be killed or maimed by the simplest of improvised explosive devices. Here was a new and shocking symmetry in warfare...
...difficulty, says Ramp. "Most of the options are things people aren't willing to do." Redesigning roads to incorporate overpasses, underpasses or fencing would cost billions of dollars; deterrent devices fitted to vehicles simply don't work; experiments with spreading predator scents along the verges have been unsuccessful. The simplest solution would be for drivers in the bush-especially those at the wheels of big trucks, which are the most murderous-to change their attitude: stay alert, slow down on single-lane highways, try not to drive when animal activity peaks at dawn and dusk. But Ramp's not holding...
...consumer, the problem with buying a casket is that nobody wants to do so until the need arises--and by then it's simplest to purchase one through the funeral home. Consumer watchdogs say some funeral homes regularly inflate prices on caskets and mislead families into believing they may not shop elsewhere, despite a 1984 ruling by the Federal Trade Commission that explicitly states they may. (A class action was filed in 2005 by the Funeral Consumers Alliance that charged Batesville with conspiring with the big funeral-service chains. Batesville will not comment on pending litigation...
...Europeans say they recognize climate change as a major issue, and 75% identify fossil-fuel emissions as a major cause. And yet, as was widely discussed at a conference of environmentalists, geologists and writers last week in Ankelohe, Germany, public understanding has not translated into even the simplest of public actions. Less than 1% of Britons, for example, have switched their home electricity to renewable sources, even though it requires little more than a phone call to one's existing provider (I should know - I did it last week). Proportions on the Continent are slightly higher, but there's clearly...
...onset of this illness, which has its roots in the survival instinct common to all of us. "I've had several patients who've been buried alive," says psychiatrist McFarlane, "and it's an overwhelmingly intense experience. You might do everything you can to forget it, but the simplest things can revive the memory." Even a blanket on one's body can trigger the sensation of constriction and its frightening corollary, asphyxiation; darkness can become unbearable...