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...left Japan scrambling for a response. As evidence first became public two weeks ago that a North Korean test might be imminent, Tokyo had been among the first and loudest voices in an international chorus demanding that Pyongyang refrain from going ahead. Japan responded immediately by suspending the ferry transport and charter flights between the countries, and blocking North Korean officials from traveling to Japan. It also moved quickly to co-sponsor, with the U.S., a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding that North Korea immediately cease development, testing and deployment of ballistic missiles. The Council meets to discuss...
...terrorism" and measures aimed at clamping down on incitement to terrorism by hatemongers. MI5 has been authorized to recruit 1,000 additional operatives, and is establishing regional offices to improve its coverage beyond London and the Southeast. transec, the security division of the British government's Department for Transport, is piloting trials of new security equipment to enhance the protection of public transport. When preventive action goes wrong, as in the shooting of Menezes and during the east London raid, confidence in the police and the security services plummets. One might reasonably assume the opposite: that the public should feel...
...occur at the institute, national or international level. Most importantly, the ISSCR will provide researchers with template documents that cover critical safety and ethical issues such as informed consent that review boards need to consider in trials involving the use of human embryonic stem cells - and even the transport of these cells among different labs in different countries...
...Military considerations - his perceived need for good roads to transport troops and materiel over far-flung continental distances - initially compelled Eisenhower. But, with the force of an idea whose time had arrived, the system and its eventual designers found broader inspirations - the German Autobahn, as well as the parkways built by New Yorker Robert Moses as early as the 1930s and the futuristic highway visions of Norman Bel Geddes and French Modernist Le Corbusier...
...Ambassador, a rattletrap sedan first manufactured by Hindustan Motors in 1957 and still sold today. Due to years of underinvestment, much of India's manufacturing base is just as outmoded as the Ambassador, and many of the problems that have kept investors at bay red tape, corruption, outmoded transport links and unreliable electrical power remain...