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...Tadic. "This is not politics anymore," said Stojan Cerovic, of the Belgrade weekly Vreme. "It's madness." Serbia looked saner last year when, in the aftermath of the assassination, the government imposed a state of emergency and rounded up thousands of suspects. Members of the top-secret special-police unit known as the Red Berets, led by Lukovic (they pioneered ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian war, and some turned to peddling drugs), were accused of carrying out the hit. The unit was disbanded and Lukovic forced underground. The then chief prosecutor, Djordje Ostojic, told Time that the government was determined...
What's in a name? Quite a lot if you're the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the largest agency of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Tom Ridge, secretary of DHS, has proposed changing the unit's name to Bureau of Investigations and Criminal Enforcement, partly to better reflect what the agency does and also to banish any perceptions that it's merely a reincarnation of the poorly regarded, now defunct Immigration and Naturalization Service. But the FBI is objecting, contending that the proposed name is too close...
When James McLurkin was a high school junior on Long Island, N.Y., he built his first robot: a toy car that he rigged with a keypad, an LED display and a squirt gun. Then he programmed the unit to travel to the next room and "engage the target." His parents--the target in question--got a good soaking...
...hours of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, Robin Murphy was on the scene with a team of robots to help sort through the debris. It was the first real-world test of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue in Tampa, Fla., the only unit of its kind on the planet. Rescue workers at ground zero, accustomed to using trained dogs and cameras mounted on poles to look for survivors and human remains and test for structural weaknesses, soon saw the advantage of cyberhelpers. "Search cams typically penetrate only 18 ft., and the heat was melting...
Captain Reagan, kept out of action because of poor vision, never saw hostile fire. Indeed, since he was assigned to the First Motion Picture Unit (jocularly given the acronym FUMPOO) at the old Hal Roach studios making propaganda films for the armed forces, he could usually bunk at home. They also serve who narrate documentaries...