By Heidi Schwartz, on August 25, 2005, at 7:27 am Okay, so I couldn’t resist the bad joke, but neither could the people in charge of hurricane names. Or perhaps they didn’t think this season would get all the way to the letter “K”…
August is considered by some to be the beginning of the busiest part of the hurricane season, and yet, it’s old news in Florida and other states in along the East Coast. Tropical Storm Katrina is gearing up to make landfall some time along the eastern coast of Florida within the next day or so, but residents are not necessarily preparing as they should. Gas
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By Heidi Schwartz, on August 24, 2005, at 7:34 am
In the aftermath of last month’s bombings in the London Underground, New York City has finally announced an aggressive plan to deal with terrorist acts on public transportation. Commuters have complied with added security checks, but these efforts will now be supported by the latest technological devices as well.
Sewell Chan of the New York Times writes,
Officials unveiled the high-tech future of transit security in New York City yesterday: an ambitious plan to saturate the subways with 1,000 video cameras and 3,000 motion sensors and to enable cellphone service in 277 underground stations – but not
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