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...Wiretapping Ruling Is Vulnerable Even opponents of President Bush's surveillance program have to be dismayed by Judge Taylor's thin legal reasoning
...Wiretapping Ruling Is Vulnerable Even opponents of President Bush's surveillance program have to be dismayed by Judge Taylor's thin legal reasoning
...Further north, the magnetic termites of the Northern Territory align their tall, narrow nests perfectly north to south. The thin-skinned insects are highly sensitive to temperature, and the orientation of the gravestone mounds allows the Territory sun to pass overhead without overheating the inhabitants. Elsewhere, termites burrow underground to escape the heat or open and close vents in an air-conditioning system, but during the big wet of the Top End that's not an option...
...stretch of road is the kangaroo. "The roos breed up something phenomenal," says Eucla mechanic Rodney Fowler, who regularly tows broken-down vehicles across the Nullarbor. "Trucks bowl them over all the time, and a few cars as well. And they just keep on coming and they don't thin out." But a roo isn't to blame this morning, nor is low oil or water. Written across the Kenworth's chassis is the motto without trucking australia stops, but into the last quarter of their 40-hour trip, Schneider and Bryson must simply sit on the roadside and check...
...order BP to improve its corrosion inspections. Nonetheless, Alaska's oilfields - far from war in the Middle East and hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico - seemed slightly sheltered from turmoil. No more. "It's turning out to be bigger than people thought," says Flynn. "It reminds us how thin the line is between supply and demand...