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...pouring additional resources into community policing. "They call us 'tea drinkers,' " says Police Sergeant Andy Port, on patrol with Police Constable Pete Ward in one of the rougher reaches of Hackney. The nickname refers to the amount of time officers working for the Met's Safer Neighborhood Teams spend chatting with locals over cups...
Advice as to where to focus the next Afghan surge or how many more billions we should spend to catch bin Laden is given to our leaders in weekly CIA briefings. Perhaps we should add just one historical fact: for 3,000 years, never has a Western army won a lasting victory on the Asian mainland. Never. So how can we believe war will achieve anything in this 21st century, with economic power surging in China, India and Russia? Nicolas Gessner, PARIS...
...coming weeks because the oil futures market finally is reflecting supply-demand shifts," Valliere said. "There is no policy initiative that could have done this, nothing from Washington. Market forces finally are dominating the speculators." And at least with the lights off, the Republican representatives who plan to spend all week talking gas prices on the shuttered House floor will be doing their part to save electricity...
...Popp, who describes himself as "34 going on 12," and they know how to have fun. Don't get me wrong. Ice-core science is all hard work - especially the painstaking analysis of the ice cores back in the lab - but only a certain kind of scientist chooses to spend weeks on an isolated ice cap, and I suspect that kind of scientist is a lot more fun to hang out with than the sort that never leaves their laptops. They're spiritual descendants of the polar explorers who crossed the ice over a century ago with dogs and sleds...
...world economy may be slowing, but you wouldn't know it to look at the giddily bullish market for the services of the world's leading soccer players. The top clubs in England, Spain and Italy are primed to spend billions of dollars in the remaining four weeks of this summer's "transfer window," during which teams are allowed to trade consenting players. And in a game with no salary caps, the players - who not only get to negotiate a more lucrative deal with their new clubs but also get 10% of their transfer fee (the remainder going...