Word: fasts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sticky Saturday, and the sun was fast disappearing. The men, tan from the harsh Gulf sun, drank Budweisers. It was an evening like any other, only I was there...
...taking things too seriously, Linklater is able to get a lot done. He has about 10 films he has started working on, patiently waiting for them to get traction with studios, investors or actors. There's an adaptation of the nonfiction book Fast Food Nation, an Owen Wilson and Natalie Portman movie called The Smoker (about parents who try to hook their daughter up with her high school teacher) and a football movie he started shooting but lost financing...
...still not perfect. But they are a good--and expensive--part of a larger surveillance strategy. If a sensor goes off, Metro officials check out the platform using closed-circuit video. They scan for odd packages or riders showing signs of illness. The idea is to identify a problem--fast--so evacuation can begin. That's because while a train bombing is bad, a biological, chemical or radiation attack on a train is an epidemic snaking through a city via a web of underground tunnels...
Most counterterrorism experts don't think high-tech bomb-detection solutions will ever work for public transit. Trains and buses are useful precisely because they are convenient, fast and cheap--and therefore hard to secure. That's why the oft repeated complaint that the government spends far more on aviation security than on transit is a bit of an oversimplification. It's true that the Feds have spent $18 billion on protecting planes and only $250 million exclusively on transit since 9/11. But that's partly because aviation is much easier to secure. And it's also because local officials...
...Already, one of the most beautiful legacies of India's colonial past?the bungalows in New Delhi designed by the great Edwin Lutyens?are fast disappearing: all those in private hands were demolished between 1980 and 2000. Last autumn, India's Central Public Works Department announced that the same fate now awaits the Lutyens bungalows owned by the government?despite the fact that the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage is currently proposing that Lutyens' New Delhi be named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The destruction of probably the world's greatest colonial townscape would...