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A group of men who devoted their lives to hunting powerful storms died in the middle of the chase

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crews hauled away a mangled white truck Sunday that had been crushed like a tin can. The metal frame of their storm-chasing vehicle was twisted almost beyond recognition. The windows had been smashed to bits.

13 people dead

Oklahoma tornados,

Tim Samaras and Carl Young.

You get arrested. The authorities run a background check. They need to know if you have outstanding warrants or unpaid tickets, if you jumped bail somewhere, if you're driving a stolen vehicle. To obtain your criminal history, they routinely send your fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which keeps a database of more than a hundred million prints. The F.B.I., under a federal program known as Secure Communities, will share your fingerprints with the Department of Homeland Security. Homeland Security's core job--the reason it was created--is to prevent terrorist attacks on the United States. Your prints might reveal that you're a suspected terrorist. D.H.S. is also charged with border security. Its Immigration and Customs Enforcement arm, ICE, will run your prints through the D.H.S. database--specifically, its U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology Program (U.S.-VISIT) and Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT), which also contain more than a hundred million prints--searching for a match with people wanted for immigration violations. If a match occurs, ICE can issue a "detainer." Now the local authorities, before they release you, may notify ICE, which may elect to transfer you to federal custody in order to begin deportation proceedings.

some oddities and two fateful errors.

Alien. These incorrect entries flagged Lyttle for ICE's Criminal Alien Program. His fingerprints, however, would presumably establish his U.S. citizenship--his criminal history, as kept by the F.B.I., shows his citizenship numerous times. That is one of the beauties of biometrics: its deployment can trump racial profiling.

Sharifi Muqaddam stated that new departments were opened in the hospital and the demands of patients have increased by 2-3 times. Therefore, the nurses were required to work additional hours which contradicts their contracts. According to law, the nurses can work an additional 80 hours, however, they had to work an additional 200 hours.

Nurses have held a protest in the Imam Khomeini Hospital

protesting the lack of medical personnel and a forced increase of their working hou

Arthritis creeps up on a cat with signs so subtle that they're easy to miss: getting up more slowly from a nap, dashing after a toy mouse less often, perhaps even losing interest in leaping from the floor to the kitchen counter top.