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Healy said the city had not been able to provide around-the-clock patrols in Cambridgeport, but added that he could not speak more about the issue without consulting Police Commissioner Ronnie Watson...
...could meditate themselves into trances so deep that they didn't react when hot test tubes were pressed against their arms. In Japan a scientist named T. Hirai showed that Zen meditators were so focused on the moment that they never habituated themselves to the sound of a ticking clock (most people eventually block out the noise, but the meditators kept hearing it for hours). Another study showed that master meditators, unlike marksmen, don't flinch at the sound of a gunshot. None of this, oddly, has been duplicated for a Vegas show...
...market starts to open at 7 a.m., and most stalls are fully operational by 8 a.m. Note also that Chatuchak gets unimaginably busy, so don't operate in an unwieldy brigade. Split into mobile hit squads of twos and threes, and arrange to regroup at the prominent central clock tower (the vital landmark was donated by the market's Chinese Association in honor of the Thai King's 60th birthday...
...report does not charge that U.S. intelligence agencies possessed intelligence that predicted the coming catastrophe. But, sources say, it raises troubling questions about whether the attacks might have been averted if U.S. intelligence and law enforcement personnel had spotted just a few more clues and had initiated round-the-clock physical, telephone and e-mail surveillance of even one or two of the terrorists...
...camera crews made final adjustments and microphones were nudged—and the courtroom’s large clock set forward to read 7 p.m. so that the taped first portion of the broadcast would appear to be live that evening—Dershowitz paced the courtroom floor a few minutes before the trial’s actual 2 p.m. start. Looking lost in intense thought at times and grinning boyishly at others, he set the tone for the afternoon and evening’s events: a very serious scrutiny of a recreational pastime, a prosecution for crimes against...