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...they had a security system—if you hit a button and the door would lock. Short of that, almost any museum in the country could be taken down in that fashion, as long as the stuff was accessible to the road.” He cites the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as one such vulnerable place...
...billed as "policing by Twitter," a first for London's Metropolitan Police. Environmental campaigners had announced plans to set up a 3,000-person-strong "camp for climate action" in the British capital on Aug. 26. In the days leading up to the event, police and protesters both promised to start tweeting information to ensure its peaceful running. "We set up a Twitter site specifically," says Chief Superintendent Helen Ball, the Met officer charged with explaining the purportedly high-tech, low-visibility operational policy. "The use of Twitter is within a range of different communication methods, improving understanding...
...finances to the job. She declined to discuss her goals for the position, stating that it is "a little premature" and that she expects to take time to "really assess things" upon her arrival. Before her stint in academic management, Lapp served as the chief executive officer of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York. Appointed to that post by then-Governor George Pataki soon after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Lapp was responsible for an annual budget of $7 billion and led a five-year, $21 billion capital expansion program. Lapp graduated from Fairfield University...
...program. Instead it is an ambitious policy prescription to restart - and redirect - the economy in new directions over the next three years. Stimulus spending is not a fast-infusion jobs program, nor is it always targeted toward the hardest-hit states. For example, stimulus road-building largely bypasses large metropolitan regions where antiquated infrastructure snarls traffic to focus on rural areas and smaller states...
There have been lots of stories lately about chicken coops' becoming a new urban and suburban accessory. But Carpenter considers the squawking hen "the urban-farming gateway animal," the first occupant of a big metropolitan menagerie. Among eco-foodies, the hottest urban livestock bleat, quack, gobble, oink, buzz and ... well, whatever noise rabbits make. Just ask the folks at Seattle Tilth, a composting and gardening nonprofit that this summer added goat sheds and pens to its long-standing local chicken-coop tour. Or ask the participants in Detroit's Garden Resource Program, which recently launched beekeeping classes and saw them...