We wanted a softer image to get ordinary people to feel closer to our security efforts. A Japanese police spokesman on the decision to use teenage actress Ai Kato as the poster girl for a security drive ahead of the Okinawa meetings of the Group of Seven nations and Russia. We release them on the grassland, blow whistles, and they eat locusts. So far the birds are estimated to have devoured more than 100 million of the pests, which have stripped bare over 3.8 million hectares of crops and grassland.
Every day is like the Persian Gulf War.
Locals have complained not only of the noise but also of a range of medical problems that they blame on activity at the range. We need reform, not Band-Aids. Kerryn Phelps, president of the Australian Medical Association, after a Senate report cited cases of patients being discharged early from hospitals. Robert Einhorn, head of the U.S. delegation discussing arms control with North Korea, after talks again ended in stalemate. Let's not strangle the baby in the crib.