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...reinforced concrete, was set back in a grove of date palms, about 1.25 miles (2 km) northeast of the village of Hibhib First bomb GBU-12 A 500-lb. (227 kg) smart bomb that follows a laser signal to its target. An electronics pod under the aircraft or a spotter on the ground illuminates the target with a laser. A guidance system in the nose of the bomb detects that spot and controls the movements of the airfoils in the rear to steer the bomb toward the target. The bomb has a range of about eight miles (13 km) Second...
...force to transfer officers from desk jobs to street patrols, and he backed a 10 p.m. curfew on some parolees and probationers. The city is trying to raise bails to keep suspects in jail, and cameras have been installed in high-crime areas. Recently the city tested "shot spotter" technology to isolate gunshots using acoustic technology...
...finding a mate has never been more difficult - they outnumber blokes in the 30-39 age group by 25,000. The differential stalls birth rates and has serious implications for the sustainability of the country's tax regime and generous social welfare system. But before Australians say tough, trend spotter Bernard Salt believes his country could be headed down the same path. "Australia needs to ensure that globalization does not lead to the plundering by others of our youth, our energy, our intellect and our men," he writes in The Big Picture (Hardie Grant Books...
...softer legal trigger was used. How much softer? That's an explosive legal and political mystery. Michael Hayden, the former NSA head who has taken a public role in defending the program but who is not a lawyer, has implied that the NSA officers who were manning the spotter desks had to have a reason to believe that a terrorist plot might be in the works. But Gonzales, who will no doubt have to defend his government's actions in court someday, tried to argue that a "reason to believe" was the same as "probable cause...
...Anthony Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal), the everyman U.S. Marine, or “jarhead,” whose war autobiography this movie adapts. While training, Swofford is selected to join an elite scout unit, and he trades in his girlfriend for a sniper rifle and Peter Sarsgaard, his increasingly unstable spotter. Sergeant Siek (Jamie Foxx) leads Swofford’s unit, and it’s not that he’s a bad guy—he just enjoys torturing his trainees. Siek’s tough love continues when the marines ship out to fight Saddam...