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Nonetheless, even with equipment that could have come from an episode of CSI, Europe's art police can recover only a fraction of what goes missing. Italy's Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale - considered the world's best art squad - employs nearly 300 officers (versus about 30 in France and six in Britain), along with a pool of informants, undercover agents and experts. It also has the largest database, holding information on 2.6 million missing artworks. Still, the carabinieri's recovery rate is only 10%, at best...
...issue in Yellowstone National Park," says Deputy Chief Ranger Tim Reid. "You can legally possess an unloaded firearm," stored in the vehicle. He says Yellowstone has about 30 firearms cases a year already, including wildlife poaching, but noted that crime relative to numbers of visitors is a fraction of the national average. In 2006, out of 2.8 million visitors, 260 people were arrested in Yellowstone on a variety of charges. "The way the regulation works now seems effective from our point of view," says Rick Obernesser, Yellowstone's chief law enforcment ranger. Added Special Agent in Charge Brian Smith: "That...
...candidate this cycle. Evangelicals, who make up about 40% of GOP caucusgoers, are drawn to Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist pastor. But Romney has a formidable head start signing them up. Huckabee is scrambling to gain ground, recently taping an interview with a Christian media company--for a small fraction of the cost of television advertising--that churches and congregants can download and watch. And he's counting on the organizational prowess of his homeschooling supporters...
Outsourcing brings to mind big factories and call centers. But entrepreneurs around the globe now offer services--from tutoring to sculpting a bust of your grandpa--to regular folks for a fraction of the cost in the West. Thought the world was flat before? Well, now you can hire someone in India to carry your child...
Take the dime in your wallet. Now imagine a chip no larger than a fraction of that coin that can detect the faintest traces of thousands of different chemicals, using over 32 different infrared light-emitting lasers...