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...terrorist attack on a cousin of the royal family's. In the course of foiling it, he kills one of the attackers, thereby bringing on himself and his family the relentless, psychopathic enmity of the attacker's brother Sean Miller (Sean Bean, a good, constantly smoldering source of side-stream paranoia...
...size monitor that can be used on a riverbank to measure the amount of dissolved oxygen and ammonia in the water, along with its acidity and turbidity. The authority also spurred the development of a remote-sensing water monitor, as well as an experimental technique that injects iron into stream beds to neutralize polluting phosphates. All three inventions are considered good export prospects...
...exactly. Americans have always been willing to help the genuinely needy. But there is growing resistance to the notion of giving money unconditionally to able-bodied adults -- and an insistence on mutual obligation as the only fair basis for public aid. "There's a deep-running stream in American life," says Marmor, "that comes out a fundamental belief in individual responsibility, in the concept that you earn your...
Even after the boats are rebuilt and on the water, technology remains the key to victory. Once the race is under way, the sailors will use global position systems to help track their course, and sensors to measure velocity. Onboard computers will supply a steady stream of data on boat performance, wind and sea conditions and other information to aid the crew in trimming, tacking and changing sail directions...
...patrols, who punish offenders with religious indoctrination and the public pillory. Communist propaganda posters still decorate the streets, but the cry of "God is great!" echoing from the mosques has a more stirring effect on the local population. During afternoon prayers, the Islamic guards keep order among the steady stream of the faithful crowding through the ornate portals of a city mosque...