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...repatriation (C.-and-R.) centers are responsible for detaining vagrants, beggars and those who lack permits to live in cities, and returning them to their hometowns. In reality, say human-rights experts and those who have experienced the system firsthand, it's a terrifyingly arbitrary and routinely abused tool of state power that, at its worst, amounts to little more than a police-enforced kidnapping-and-ransom scheme...
...star that day, but the shop's owner, German retail chain Metro AG, and its 39 partners in the venture - including the likes of Intel and SAP - are more interested in the response of people like Birgit Hüsken. She regularly uses the store's most prominent tool, the Personal Shopping Assistant (PSA) - a cart-mounted computer that advertises sales as she moves from section to section and keeps a running total of purchases. A central computer ensures that the prices in the PSA sync with those of the store's 37,000 radio-controlled price tags. Some products...
...their camera masts, the 2003 models weigh about 400 lbs. each and should be able to cover up to 3,000 ft. in their 90 days of life--including many days they will spend standing around studying rocks. Each has a robot arm crowded with instruments: a rock-abrasion tool for boring into samples, a pair of spectrometers for analyzing mineral composition and measuring radioactive and electromagnetic radiation, and a microscopic imager. "The rovers are like field geologists going out to a new place," says Steve Squyres of Cornell University, NASA's principal investigator for the missions...
...forgotten when allocating blame and punishment," the review stated. So far, no punishment has been allocated. Late last month, the World Psychiatric Association took China to task in an unusual statement calling on the country to allow international experts to investigate allegations that psychiatry is used as a political tool...
...their camera masts, the 2003 models weigh about 180 kg each and should be able to cover up to 915 m in their 90 days of life - including many days they will spend standing around studying rocks. Each has a robot arm crowded with instruments: a rock-abrasion tool for boring into samples, a pair of spectrometers for analyzing mineral composition and measuring radioactive and electromagnetic radiation, and a microscopic imager. "The rovers are like field geologists going out to a new place," says Steve Squyres of Cornell University, NASA's principal investigator for the missions. When they go, they...