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TRACY MORGAN in fish-tank-fire incident. 30 Rock writes itself...
...trend. They call extradition an expensive, overused legal procedure and one that - like most drug-war tools - has failed to stem the flow of illegal narcotics into the U.S. "Every day we extradite more people, but the problem continues," says Maria Victoria Llorente, director of the Bogotá think tank Ideas for Peace. (While the U.S. says Colombia's cocaine production has decreased from 680 tons in 2002 to 535 tons in 2007, the United Nations says it has increased from 580 tons to 630 in the same period...
...after the latest nuclear accident became public, an analyst from the Federation of American Scientists, a nonproliferation think tank, released U.S. Naval intelligence documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act that showed that the Russian Navy undertook more underwater ballistic missile submarine patrols in 2008 than it has in a decade. The Russian subs are joined in the word's oceans by nuclear-armed vessels from France, Britain, and China. Under the plains of the American West, and in similar silos in Russia, Air Force missile operators keep constant vigil, launch keys at the ready. Nuclear missiles have...
...behind enemy lines, only to land in a far more dangerous situation - the convoluted and toxic dramas of a refugee family forced to rely on poppy to survive. As the soldiers and the Afghans warily circle each other misunderstandings abound. The refugees have taken shelter under abandoned Soviet army tanks, which the soldiers mistake for a Taliban encampment. They open fire, setting the stage for anger and frustration. The Afghans fear the soldiers are after their opium crop, or, when one of the soldiers tries to make friends with a toddler, that the foreigners want to take their children...
...cases that require immediate medical attention within total emergency transportation for the year was 11% for the general population, 1% for maternal cases, and 8% for children. "These [numbers] are not high," says James Kondo, president and vice chairman of Health Policy Institute, Japan, a Tokyo-based healthcare think-tank, "but when things go wrong in these areas, it could be fatal." The number of emergency transportation cases for Japan hit 4.92 million in 2007, and the number of serious emergency cases continues to increase. The problem of handling admission requests is particularly severe in urban areas, such as Tokyo...