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Anyone who has taken a general-science course knows that Earth's most important elements move in cycles, circulating from sky to land and sea and back again. The human presence has become so dominant that we have disrupted even these most basic mechanisms of the planet. Most familiar, of course, is what we have done to the carbon cycle. Because we are pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere much faster than land and seas can reabsorb it, the accumulating gas is trapping heat and upsetting the climate. The result is not only rising seas and fiercer storms but also...
...never been easy. DEP has underpaid its police officers--the top salary prior to March was $24,435 for patrolmen--and has not given them enough training in the detection of environmental crimes. It has starved them of basic equipment from chemical testing kits to cars. Gatto trained himself with books and videos and bought his own cell phone, cameras, video and tape recorders for preserving evidence. He learned all the tricks for detecting concealed improper discharges of waste. For example, he could put a green dye tablet into a toilet and rush outside to examine the water flowing into...
Rather than rewarding Gatto for this extraordinary police work, city officials have subjected him to a 10-year campaign of harassment. They refused him basic equipment, begrudged him routine promotions and pay raises, and denied him permission to appear on television programs honoring his environmental record. He has been the target of five separate New York City Department of Investigation probes into allegations of wrongdoing, mostly petty and always baseless. In all the cases, he has been cleared...
...technology wins kudos from third-year design student Julie Walleisa, Pollalis' teaching fellow, who says it provides flexibility for students of different levels. In basic courses with large enrollments and students of varying backgrounds, the technology makes most materials constantly available--including lectures...
...This was a basic case of security mechanisms that were not being followed or a department that was systematically ill-equipped to provide proper security," says TIME State Department Correspondent Massimo Calabresi. "But it also shows the larger new security problem presented by computers in general, which is their remote accessibility." On Monday, two months after the computer's disappearance, and roughly a week after news of the disappearance became public, Albright announced that she was removing security responsibility from the department's Intelligence and Research Bureau and handing it to another section, the Bureau of Diplomatic Security. "There...