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...Calado's well-kept home, with its bushy pot plants and white flowering tree out front, stands out on a grotty housing estate littered with boarded-up properties. Life on the estate has improved in recent years, he says - still sporting the luminous vest from one of the two truck driving jobs he holds down to meet his mortgage payments - although petty crime remains a blight. The windows of his neighbor's new car were smashed recently. "You can't leave anything inside," Calado says. "Even a GPB 3 pair of sunglasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: G-20 Site: 'A Cesspool, Bubbling with the Foul Products of Decomposition' | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

Joker One is a perfectly serviceable Iraq War memoir. You've got your typical collection of grunts and a number of gripping battle set pieces. There are scenes of heroism and others of heartbreaking folly - a soldier accidentally struck down by a Marine Humvee driving through the night, a truck that rolls over and crushes a group of Iraqi detainees - the likes of which can be found in endless wartime chronicles. Where Campbell's narrative resonates is in his evocation of the growth of a young military leader. As he grapples with how best to discipline his men, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joker One: A Marine's Bloody Iraq Memoir | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

Israeli fighter-bombers, backed by unmanned drones, were responsible for a mid-January attack on a 23-truck convoy in the Sudanese desert carrying arms to Hamas militants, two highly placed Israeli security sources revealed to TIME. The attack was a warning to Iran and other adversaries, showing Israel's intelligence capability and its willingness to mount operations far beyond its borders in order to defend itself from gathering threats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Israel Foiled an Arms Convoy Bound for Hamas | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

...study examined 456 commercial drivers over a 15-month period. Of the 20 who were both confirmed with OSA and participated in a sleep study, only one complied with treatment. suggesting that OSA-stricken truck drivers tend to avoid taking measures to treat their illnesses...

Author: By Huma N. Shah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Test Would Curb Drivers Asleep at the Wheel | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...very easy for people with medical conditions to get these [truck driving certification] cards, even though this has serious implications,” he said...

Author: By Huma N. Shah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Test Would Curb Drivers Asleep at the Wheel | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

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