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...SmartWater's first foray outside Britain, police in Tallahassee, Florida conducted an 11-month field trial that resulted in a 33% drop in thefts. Project coordinator Greg Frost of the Tallahassee police was guardedly impressed, but wonders if other social factors were at work. "We were more actively engaged with the local crime-watch associations, for example," he says. "Maybe the neighbors were more effective at looking out for each other...
...Gaza, and that the division commander in charge of the area had recently been transferred out. Israel faces a general election in February, and the current Defense Minister and Labor leader Ehud Barak, who is far behind in the polls, is unlikely to risk sending troops on a hazardous foray into Gaza...
...much as Japan is exerting its influence abroad, the country needs to welcome the world to its shores, too. Back in the 1980s, during Japan Inc.'s first global foray, many of its mergers and acquisitions languished because overseas employees chafed under the strictures of Japanese management. In the same way, unless Japan relaxes its rigid immigration policies, cultivating foreign Japanophiles will be a waste of time. Indeed, in moving beyond Japan's insular past, Prime Minister Aso might do well to take inspiration from a cuddly cat. Hello Kitty, it turns out, may not be ethnically Japanese. Her surname...
...with acoustic guitar performance and not without good reason. His career straddles the divide between the independent, underground performer and the performer who brings his gifts to the mainstream. His early-70s image as the acoustic guitar’s fresh young face gave way to a late-70s foray into that of the “singer-songwriter,” though to little success. The 80s brought a more experimental flavor to Kottke’s music, as he incorporated an even wider variety of sounds into his acoustic tableau. In the early 1980s, after sustaining chronic injuries...
...CityStep’s leaders say that the tuition-free program is geared towards those with “higher needs,” whether socioeconomic or emotional. But because CityStep’s foray into the public schools depends on a teacher’s willingness to allocate class time for the extracurricular activity, CityStep does not cater to the needs of underprivileged students who attend schools that cannot afford to participate in the program...