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...Johnston Gate. The upcoming changes to the Johnston Gate and Garden Street stops are part of the ongoing Harvard Square Improvement Project, a multimillion dollar effort by the City of Cambridge and the University to improve Harvard Square and make it more pedestrian-friendly. The 18-month campaign, begun in April 2005, is being funded by a $5.5 million contribution from the city and a $1.3 million contribution from the University. The project seeks to improve the Square’s storm water system, streets, sidewalks, plazas, and lighting. Among the most visible changes arising from the project...
...foiled terror plot in Great Britain aimed to exploit vulnerabilities in airport security, but new technology may help patch those holes. In recent months, the Transportation Security Administration has begun testing a new tool for detecting such materials, security industry sources tell TIME. The device, Ahura's FirstDefender, is a handheld chemical identification system about the size of a hardcover book. The FBI, U.S. Customs and Immigration and the Department of Homeland Security have already begun using the gadget to detect and identify chemical hazards, but it hasn't yet been implemented in airports. The TSA recently deployed...
...Britain's MI-5 intelligence service and Scotland Yard had been tracking the plot for several months, but only in the past two weeks had the plotters' planning begun to crystallize, senior U.S. officials tell TIME. In the two or three days before the arrests, the cell was going operational, and authorities were pressed into action. MI5 and Scotland Yard agents tracked the plotters from the ground, while a knowledgeable American official says U.S. intelligence provided London authorities with intercepts of the group's communications. Most of the suspects are second- or third-generation British citizens of Pakistani descent whose...
...What is known is that thousands of engravings have been destroyed since industry came here. To save the rest, a campaign has begun to secure heritage listing and block further development until a new management plan is in place. A register is being compiled, but with the petroglyphs thought to number in the millions, completing it could take decades...
Only in recent years have I begun to see the two brothers together at public events, as the younger Castro has become more visible. Raúl has played a major role in recent government battles--for instance, to get Elián González back from the U.S. in 2000 and to win the release of five Cubans convicted of spying in America the following year. When Elián was returned, however, it was Fidel who took center stage...