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...could be, and we would be much smaller without state funding.” Semonoff said she worried that although the budget cuts to the Department of Human Services are small in proportion to the city budget as a whole, reduction of services provided by DHS??among them mental health and day treatment programs—would have a large impact on Cambridge and surrounding communities. She also pointed out that in this time of fiscal downturn, the employees of human service agencies are worried about the security of their own jobs. “The very agencies...
...face value, I decided to hedge my bets and prepare for disaster. A routine search of the United States Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Web site yielded no information of how to prepare for micro black holes. So instead, I’m following the DHS??s basic recommendation of building an emergency kit that includes three gallons of water, pliers, moist towelletes, and “books, games, puzzles or other activities for children.” With any luck, I’ll be prepared for whatever micro black holes may come...
...items that appear on the scanner screen. This grant is a supplement to a $460,000 grant awarded earlier this month to the hospital’s Visual Attention Lab, headed by Jeremy M. Wolfe, a professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. The hospital has been working with DHS??s Transportation Security Lab since shortly after September 11th, according to Wolfe. Research has shown that since screeners so rarely find a dangerous item, they are likely to fall prey to what Wolfe calls the “rare target effect.” “Although...
During a recent recruitment event held by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Matthew R. Skomarovsky ’03 induced himself to vomit in order to his express his disgust for the CIA and DHS??s actions...
...leaders staged a brief rally outside the Science Center that drew about 30 protesters. The activists distributed fliers assailing the CIA’s role in the torture of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and blasting the INS—now a branch of the DHS??for detaining Muslim and South Asian immigrants in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks...