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...every block in the U.S. to verify each address. The Census was hoping to get 700,000 applications in order to fill 200,000 spots. Instead, the bureau received 1.2 million. (Those applicants will be considered for the new positions too.) This time around, says decennial recruiting chief Wendy Button, the Census will run advertisements only in areas where it anticipates having trouble filling positions, such as inner cities, extremely rural areas and neighborhoods with large percentages of non-English-speaking residents...
...Russia: The Obama Administration promised to hit the reset button in relations with Moscow, hoping that by addressing Russian concerns on the stationing of U.S. missile defense assets in Eastern Europe it could coax Russia on board with U.S. efforts to pressure Iran. But while the Administration berates the Russians for being locked into a Cold War mind-set, the Russians say the same about the U.S. policy of maintaining the NATO alliance (constructed especially to contain the Soviet Union) and extending it to Russia's borders by seeking to draw in the likes of Georgia and Ukraine. Those policies...
...also hinges on encouraging if-you-see-something-say-something vigilance on the part of passengers. And on that score, the overzealous regulations might have been just the ticket. "It's a knee-jerk reaction to get public attention, perhaps. And that's quite a good thing," says Ken Button, director of George Mason University's Center for Transportation, Policy, Operations and Logistics. Ultimately, he notes, it was the intervention of fellow passengers, along with a faulty trigger device, that brought Abdulmutallab down. "We do have to some extent [to] rely on individuals," says Button. "They should be reminded...
...photograph of Caleb, The Crimson's designers had photoshopped a campaign button on his chest emblazoned with his name...
...done, telling them, in rough form, what I’ve written here. They agreed with me that what I had done did not merit a retraction or an apology. But they decided to add a clarification to the online photograph of Caleb to emphasize that the campaign button on his chest had been added with Photoshop. The whole situation, they said, was a little dubious. I said I was still willing to write a personal reflection on reporting the article, and they agreed that readers would benefit from the added context...