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...safer than it was on Sept. 11. "Let me count the ways," he says, rattling off improvements in aviation security--from the hiring of 45,000 new federal screeners to the hardening of cockpit doors. Ridge says the Administration has improved communication between the FBI and the CIA, struck agreements with Mexico and Canada to tighten border controls and upgraded the "push packs" of medicines that can be dispatched to cities hit by biological or chemical attacks...
...when they collide, crushing the smaller vehicles. Last week automakers and a safety group met in Washington to address this issue, known as "crash compatibility." It's a daunting problem: nhtsa research has shown that if a car rams another car on the driver side, the driver of the struck car is 6.6 times as likely to die as the driver of the torpedoing one. But if an SUV hits the car, call the undertaker: the driver of the car is 30 times as likely to be killed...
After reading your article on why Europeans want President George W. Bush to slow down before going to war with Iraq [WORLD, Feb. 3], I was struck by how much I agree with them. Bush has failed to make his point with me too. I don't care for his cowboy attitude. I hope Americans wake up, smell the coffee and decide not to re-elect him. I have two sons, one serving in the Army in Afghanistan and the other a high school senior. I am totally at a loss as to what Bush hopes to accomplish by declaring...
...Gogh had an early bent for pious, even saccharine religious works, including two big paintings by Dutch-French artist Ary Scheffer that he saw in the Dordrecht Museum, Christus Consolator and The Agony in the Garden. The latter he deemed "unforgettable," adding that "long ago that same painting struck Pa the same way." Van Gogh found landscapes and rural scenes just as uplifting - first Ruisdael and Constable, and then his contemporaries from the Hague School, Josef Israëls, Matthijs Maris, Anton Mauve and their Barbizon-School cousins Charles-François Daubigny and Millet. This makes for a wonderful...
During the most serious scuffle, officers kicked at least two demonstrators who were already lying on the sidewalk. One police officer struck a woman lying on a traffic island at the intersection of Mass. Ave and Cambridge St., and said, "If someone kicks me, I'm going to kick them back...