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Tribal leaders approached the soldiers, who in turn notified civilian leaders, including the local Embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team, a State Department-sponsored unit of development and security experts working in the region since early this year. The EPRT turned to the U.S. Institute for Peace, a body created by Congress in the 1990s, to assemble the tribes, local Iraqi Army and local political leaders into working groups to come up with a plan. A delegation even traveled to Amman, Jordan, to convince exiled former members of the ousted Ba'ath regime...
...Massachusetts Joint Committee on Higher Education is set to hear testimony from students, faculty, and student advocates tomorrow on a bill that aims to reduce textbook prices across the state. The legislation, House Bill 1200—known as the Affordable Textbooks Bill—would require publishers selling textbooks to universities to disclose wholesale prices, a list of all of their products, and an estimated length of time that they expect to keep the product on the market. In addition, the bill would require bundled books to be made available individually. “It’s good...
...approached a MassPort employee working in Terminal C to ask about the status of an arriving flight. After briefly meandering through the terminal, Simpson exited and was confronted by Massachusetts State Police troopers wielding submachine guns, State Police Major Scott Pare said in a press conference Friday morning. “She followed instructions as was required by the State Police and within minutes the Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit found that it was an innocuous device and we took her into custody,” Pare said according to MIT’s student paper The Tech...
...randomized controlled trial—six [schools] received the intervention and seven got the usual education—we’d expect that would help make them very similar.” According to Maria F. Bettencourt, who directs the Nutrition and Physical Activity Unit at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the state is expanding similar obesity prevention programs in its public schools. “114 schools across the state in different communities have implemented Healthy Choices, which is a version of 5-2-1-Go!” Bettencourt said. “It?...
Even in affluent places like San Pedro, where police salaries are double those of most local and state cops in the rest of Mexico, drug kingpins can be attractive employers. Some San Pedro officers have been spotted moonlighting as security guards at Zetas' homes, police sources say. A rival cartel, the Sinaloa mafia, has countered by recruiting members of San Pedro's SWAT unit. More than 200 police officers in Monterrey and Nuevo Len have been either arrested or investigated for involvement in organized crime this year. "We never imagined the penetration of drug trafficking in our society...