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Surrounded by 53 computer screens, more than 15 telephones, and dozens of notebooks stuffed with protocols, shift supervisor Kirk A. Wornum, 43, sits behind his desk at the City of Cambridge Emergency Communications Department, ready to handle any emergency.
Wornum’s desk is one of nine in the crowded room, each equipped with three phones, a switchboard laden with 84 black buttons, and four computer screens—some of which can graphically display the location of the 911 caller.
If a person calls 911 from a land line, the location from which they are calling and name to which the number is registered pop up on computer screen in the office. Dispatchers have access to a criminal justice database, which has a record of all the crimes committed in...
The 1995 double suicide bombing at Beit Lid Junction, Israel, killed 21 Israelis and was one of the bloodiest attacks ever by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (P.I.J.)--which the U.S. soon after designated as a terrorist organization. A few weeks later, according to U.S. court documents, Sami al-Arian, a Palestinian...
Buchanan presided over the failed defense of the Ashes during the northern summer, when England beat Australia at cricket for the first time since 1986-87. You can't blame him for everything that went wrong, but you can blame him for some of it. Buchanan could out-analyze Hercule...