Word: u-turn
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...sits on your dashboard. You slip a MiniSD card into the phone (annoyingly, under the battery) and after a quick software install, the program runs. It communicates wirelessly with the GPS receiver, and quickly discovers its location. The turn-by-turn navigation experience was fairly positive, although on occasion it did point me in the wrong direction, as if a U-turn was part of the itinerary. It's no Garmin, but it passes the basic tests. The software costs $300 with the Bluetooth receiver. That may sound expensive along with a $300 phone, but it's still cheaper than...
...collapse of the administration's position on torture-and, despite the protestations that it was not a U-turn, it was-echoes another recent reversal. This week, the administration elevated "stability missions"-aka "nation building"-alongside of major combat operations. In a November directive, acting deputy defense secretary Gordon England told his combat commanders around the world to make sure post-combat stability ops are coordinated with the State Department. On Wednesday, Bush formally designated Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to spearhead efforts to rebuild nations following wars or insurrection...
...Harbin, the biggest panic came on the day the government announced it would shut off the water without saying why. When the truth came out a day later?in what the official Xinhua news agency admitted was a "U-turn"?the city calmed and the emergency response was efficient. Government engineers dug up to 100 wells around Harbin and plenty of bottled water was shipped in. Chinese newspapers jumped on the story and openly accused the government of a cover-up. "The panic and chain reaction caused by the failure to make information public," reported the Shanghai-based Oriental Morning...
...large corporate polluters in the oil and timber industries. Over time, though, green groups have realized that one effective way to halt destructive practices is to take on the institutions that bankroll them. "The private financial sector more than any other has the ability to begin the ecological U-turn modern society so desperately needs," says Ilyse Hogue, director of the global-finance campaign at Rainforest Action Network (RAN), which led the fight against JPMorgan Chase. Yet even as they have publicly confronted big financial institutions, green groups--many of which belong to a loose collection of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs...
...large corporate polluters in the oil and timber industries. Over time, though, green groups have realized that one effective way to halt destructive practices is to take on the institutions that bankroll them. "The private financial sector, more than any other, has the ability to begin the ecological U-turn modern society so desperately needs," says Ilyse Hogue, director of the global finance campaign at Rainforest Action Network (ran), which led the fight against JPMorgan Chase. Yet even as they have publicly confronted big financial institutions, green groups - many of whom belong to a loose collection of nongovernmental organizations known...