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...about 12:30 p.m., a heavily armed SWAT team clad in bulletproof gear and helmets entered the building with shields, special entry gear, a battering ram and fiber-optic equipment, which the police used to peak under doors in the hotel. The Boston Police Bomb Squad arrived shortly after 1 p.m., and four Boston ambulances waited outside with lights flashing, including a special tactical response unit with EMTs in bulletproof vests and helmets...
Consider Sarah Jusiewicz, now a sophomore. After becoming hooked as a teenager on such crime dramas as Dragnet and Diagnosis Murder, Jusiewicz knew she wanted to work in an FBI lab specializing in fingerprint analysis, ballistics and fiber comparison. So the New Jersey teenager applied to Appalachian, which offers a chemistry major with a forensic science concentration. The university's picturesque setting in the Blue Ridge Mountains didn't hurt its appeal...
...reduce the gap between Mexico and the United States--the wage gap, the technology gap, the infrastructure gap," Castaneda says. "It is quite clear that Mexico faces enormous difficulties over the next 15 years or so in finding ways to finance its infrastructure: highways, airports, telecommunications, electricity, refineries, fiber optics--the works. We think that it is in the United States' best interest to help on this. That's the type of discussion and negotiation which we think should begin to take place over the next few years...
...suddenly come up with a way to make them wolf-proof, but one of the array of stories that follow in this European Journey special report is about a man who makes cases no Russian wolf would want to chew. Igor Pantelic, part Croat, part Dutch, was using glass fiber to repair speedboats when a musician friend suggested the material would be good to encase his cello: strong, light and capable of being molded to the peculiar shape of each instrument. Today, Pantelic numbers among his clients Yo-Yo Ma and Anner Bylsma, he of Servais fame. Pantelic is modest...
...energy-cable businesses, in order to focus on telecommunications, high-tech cables, fiber optics and telecom services...