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...becoming the first President to pursue an affirmative urban policy. He has announced plans to establish a White House Office of Urban Policy that will both oversee ambitious new initiatives and coordinate existing urban programs across agencies to limit inefficiencies. And he has reportedly tapped New York's Bronx Borough President, Adolfo Carrión Jr., to lead this new Cabinet-level office...
...money from the legions of tourists who come to Amsterdam to get drunk and stoned. But as opponents point out, most do so in bars or cafés - not on the street. "We look at it with horror," says Ton Boon, a spokesman for the Centrum Borough, the quaint, canal-lined district in the heart of the city. "It brings in one kind of tourist and chases away another...
...from the Bronx, and I was wondering why you named your child after my borough. Are you a big Yankees fan or something...
...called active rat signs, such as lived-in burrows, fresh droppings, telltale gnaw marks on plastic garbage bags - in an effort to target rodent-control measures more effectively. That geocoding information was entered into each inspector's handheld indexing computer and aggregated with similar data from all across the borough. (See the top 10 animal stories...
...complaints and hot spots over time and determine how well rat-control efforts are working. The results, after just one year, should be music to the ears of most New Yorkers: when the pilot study began in the Bronx, inspectors found active rat signs on 3,100 of the borough's 39,000 properties. Preliminary results now show that 1,250 of those properties are rat-free. That's a 40% drop-off in infestations...