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More substantively, Weis has suggested the city equip his officers with M4 carbines so they can be on equal footing with the criminals they confront. But so far, Weis' major crime-fighting initiative has been to saturate crime-tossed neighborhoods, like South Austin on Chicago's West Side, with police officers. That's where several people, including a 16-year-old, were shot at a party on the evening of April 19. Now, police officers are assigned to patrol South Austin's tree-lined streets during the day - on foot and bike. By night, those patrols are to be reinforced...
...While most of the aid package goes to equip Mexico with Black Hawk helicopters and more sophisticated surveillance equipment, it also includes funds for more credible training of police, prosecutors and judges - in other words, to start the long-term institutional overhaul advocated by Leahy and others. Indiana Republican Senator Richard Lugar suggested this month that trimming the Merida Initiative would set back efforts to transform Mexican law enforcement, and would "harm U.S.-Mexico relations and broader U.S. interests." Still, Leahy and other Senators may attach conditions on the Merida aid, such as demanding more concrete evidence that Mexico...
...Education Program and the HBS Indian Research Center, will offer a four-day workshop in Hyderabad, India that aims to connect experienced executives in real estate with HBS faculty familiar with current industry research. Using the Business School’s renowned case study method, the course aims to equip participations with skills that enable them to better evaluate the opportunities and obstacles in South Asia’s booming real estate market. “Real estate is one of the areas where we think we can help most because it is the largest asset case in the world...
...could improve their lives by providing more information about the urban environment in which they live. The Google fire service allows people to avoid accident sites by tuning electronic devices to automatic updates from the city's RSS news feed, says fire captain Dean Ford. Eventually, Nanaimo plans to equip its grass-cutting machines with GPS devices, so residents piqued by the apparent shabbiness of a particular park or grass verge can use Google to find out when last it was groomed by the city's gardening staff. And the city's cemeteries will soon be mapped to allow internet...
...Stanford used LEED certifications as background, the university ultimately decided to use their own guidelines to regulate the construction of the building. Cleary said that the university had several problems with LEED, including the price of certification, estimated at $100,000, which he said could better be used to equip the building with better technology...