Various road-building schemes that were approaching shovel-readiness have been delayed.
With the eye of Hurricane Gustav about to pass overhead in this south-central Louisiana city just after noon, Lois Driskill stood in the parking lot, her back to gusts of wind that were approaching 100 miles an hour, and implored her friends to take her photograph.
If machines that were approaching human general intelligence were to be endowed with consciousness, would this potentially make them more willful and less easily controlled by their human creators?
And on Saturday, almost as if to underline the risks involved, the Japanese authorities say that they scrambled two F-15 fighters to intercept two Chinese surveillance planes that were approaching the islands.
Having lost his glasses, Juskalian could not distinguish the soldiers that were approaching him from 50 feet (15 m) away.
About the same time, most of the elements of XLVI Motorised Corps that were approaching Belgrade from the west were redirected away from the capital.
