Word: complexity
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...this brisk evening, the Salt Lake County Adult Detention Complex is moonlighting as a bed-and-breakfast, offering citizens a one-time-only opportunity to experience punishment without crime. Price: $55 for adults, $30 for children. So just who came up with this screwy idea? Sheriff Aaron Kennard, who says with a missionary's zeal that the public needs to "see what my people are going through." His people are the 665 officers and civilians who will staff the $135 million facility when it opens to real criminals this week. But some of the sheriff's visitors have another goal...
...120/208-volt cable connecting three transformers that deliver power to the 495-unit apartment complex short-circuited and caught fire, said Cambridge Electric spokesperson Eric de Lacoste. The rubber insulation burned for several hours in a fire that produced that poisonous...
...Lacoste said Cambridge Electric has not yet determined the cause of the short circuit. The utility is also unsure why carbon monoxide gas from the fire leaked into the complex, which mostly houses Harvard graduate students and their families...
...1980s, those interests were becoming complex. Time Inc., which had become a public company in 1964, owned not only 24 magazines but also Little, Brown books, HBO and a growing cable system. But the journalistic principle remained simple: we should be honest in our judgments and truthful in our reporting. A church-state wall was established to protect those of us on the edit side from corporate influence...
Time Warner's planned merger with AOL will create a corporation that is even bigger and more complex. But the principle that guides our journalism is just as simple as it has always been. A respect for journalistic independence has been part of our company's values for so long that it's encoded in our DNA, and the only way our magazine can remain successful is if we continue that approach. If there are failures in judgment, it will be the fault of the editors and journalists here, as it has always been, not of the corporate structure...