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...internally. "She's a real expert at improving morale," he says. "She'll be good at digging in at this, she talk to the staff about the SEC being a great institution with a proud tradition. She understands what moves people, you'll see a big change in this area...
While he wouldn't comment on whether there are gangs operating in the area, Eggleston says there is clearly a sense of alienation developing in the city. "We don't know each other as well as we used to, and there is a detachment in that sense of ownership," he says. "I think that type of attitude is degrading to any community. When you lose that sense of ownership - 'This is mine and I will do anything I can to uphold it, respect it and preserve it' - that's a decline in any community...
...Another area that needs re-examination, says scholar Boucek, is the assessment of the risk of recidivism. "There's a lot of research on, for instance, when you should release a child molester from jail," he says. "But there's been no study on terrorists. When do you let a head chopper out of rehab...
...Since the cease-fire, the tunnelmakers have become more brazen. They dig in plain sight of the Egyptian border watchtowers and Israeli surveillance aircraft, with a large bubble of tattered plastic over each entrance. Thousands of Gazans swarm around the pitted, sandy area because the tunnels are now the enclave's biggest source of employment. The men carry shovels, ropes and stacks of wooden slats used to reinforce the tunnels where cave-ins are nearly as big a danger as Israeli bombs. Others emerge from the plastic bubbles carting away goods destined for merchants throughout Gaza, who placed orders weeks...
...dozen patients and is not designed to test the effectiveness of the cells. Rather, it will simply monitor the safety of inserting them into people. The researchers will be looking for whether the cells cause tumors, trigger an immune response or start to migrate away from the spinal-cord area. "There are certainly unknowns that we can't predict," says Dr. David Scadden, co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. "We don't know whether or not these cells might grow abnormally in a person. We don't know if things might occur just by these cells being present...