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...system assigns blue, yellow, orange and red as the danger increases, and offers guidelines for how to respond to each level. When U.S. intelligence receives reliable information about a new threat, Director Tom Ridge's Homeland Security Council will huddle to determine which color fits the situation. The color wheel is designed to provide some context to what have so far been one-size-fits-all warnings that make it hard for local law-enforcement officers to know whether they need merely to leave their cell phones by the bed or dispatch armed guards to the bridges...
...house quickly became my home away from home and many a milestone was celebrated therein. At age seven I began driver’s ed at the Grand Prix Raceway. Because of my short stature, my mom controlled the pedal while I, barely visible, clutched the wheel as the racecar sputtered and jerked along at an exhilarating 10 miles per hour. The following year I had my first brush with television fame—and with a pre-”Felicity” Keri Russell—as I sat in on a taping...
...solid six inches separate the back bumper of the hulking 12-person van and a cement support beam in the impossibly-configured parking lot. This situation makes Katherine E. Tierney ’02, who is behind the wheel of the van, a tiny bit nervous. It is not helping matters that Steve Griffin, the man the Harvard Insurance Office trusts to teach her how to park, is outside the van telling the funniest jokes he has ever heard. He shouts that he is “bad at” estimating distances and that she should keep coming because...
...because Griffin has a packed schedule and Tierney needs to fit her certification drive in before Griffin takes off for Australia. (At press time, Griffin is visiting Sydney, Melbourne and Tanzania courtesy of his fans—namely, the PBHA program leaders who spend time with Griffin behind the wheel of a PBHA...
...wives of village heads. Teachers know which children are vulnerable, and some alert procurers for a fee. He has seen pickup trucks full of girls sold to brothels leaving from schools in what is called tok keow, or the green harvest. A police officer is often at the wheel. "This is a war," Sompop says. "A war for our children...