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...year-old mother of a member of a rival group. But as news of the bust spread, a crowd of about 400, mostly women, poured onto the street to hurl insults and crockery at the authorities who nabbed him. The episode shows just how far law and order have broken down in Naples. This part of town, along with the adjoining Scampia neighborhood, has become the center of the regional drug trade, supplying much of the Campania region and other parts of southern Italy with cocaine, heroin and other narcotics. Over the past two months, Scampia and Secondigliano have erupted...
...government does return - Ghedi has said he plans to visit Mogadishu in early February - the task it faces is huge. Civil war and the lack of an effective central government have left Somalia splintered into a mosaic of clan-based fiefdoms. Two mini-states in the north have broken away, though no country recognizes their independence. In the Mogadishu suburbs that sprawl around the devastated old quarter, donkey carts and machine gun-fitted pickups compete for passage on sand-swept streets. Militias still clash regularly and murders and kidnappings are common. Public infrastructure is almost nonexistent. Returning Somalia...
...police and sanitation officials joined forces to study patterns of illegal dumping and increase prosecutions. But the true collaborative power of 311 is even more fundamental. When a parks-and-recreation employee calls 311 about a missed trash pickup and a water-department staff member calls after spotting a broken sidewalk, they are, in a way, playing the same pivotal role as those thousands of callers in Chicago in 2002 who, without realizing, predicted where West Nile would strike next. At low cost and with little new bureaucracy, 311 callers are helping to build more intelligent, more responsive cities...
...LATHAM 47 - BEAZLEY 45. New Sensation. "I'm the same Mark Latham but I'm in a new role." All my life. "I love the larrikin Australian role, but no more crudity." New politics. "Modern politics is broken, and we need to fix it." Democracy in the raw. "If in doubt, let's have more democracy, more direct voting, more public participation." Town-hall style meetings. Possum Magic. "If we all read books to our infant children, they will be reading themselves by the time they go to school." What did you learn today? "Quality teaching is a passport...
...Comes the tsunami and we realize to our horror that Nature has merely to shrug, to flick a finger, as it were, and hundreds of thousands of us are broken, entire nations thrown into chaos and grief. It is the ultimate reminder of our common fragility, of just how precarious our species' ridiculously brief sojourn on this earth really...