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...With their tactile, outside view of country, it's fitting that Thomas' successors adorn the front of the Australian building. Painted to the left of the front doors is Paddy Bedford's Thoowoonggoonarrin, the former stockman's maternal homeland. In tones of blue-black and pinky-white, his diamond-sharp eye excavates the land from above. Raised in relief across three storeys of the fa?ade above are the jimbala spearheads of Lena Nyadbi's paternal country. These spearheads were also used to tattoo the skin of young initiates, and even from oceans away, the architects could feel the artist...
...Texas officials were worried from the beginning. On Sept. 1, Governor Rick Perry's communications director e-mailed the state's homeland security director: "Question between you and I, at what point do we go from being compassionate to being taken advantage of (meaning, are they sending us folks we don't want?)," according to records released by the Governor's office...
...create all kinds of early-warning systems once you understand the patterns. You can tell the computers: You tell me when they make the following kinds of phone calls, because that tells me I've got to do something to disrupt an attack." Says Richard Falkenrath, who was deputy homeland security adviser in the White House during Bush's first term: "I was a consumer of link analysis that may well have been informed by this collection effort. I didn't know how they were getting it, but I'm glad they were getting...
This is not Cambridge’s first gesture of civil disobedience. On June 17, 2002, the council passed a resolution declaring that Cambridge would not cooperate with the Department of Homeland Security to enforce provisions of the USA PATRIOT act which violate citizens’ civil liberties...
Granted, the dangers faced by a few thousand Vermonters may not be panic-inducing, but the problems with Vermont Yankee are representative of the dangers of many nuclear power plants. Since 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security has required nuclear plants to gauge their vulnerabilities to a terrorist attack. (NCR ran similar tests in the 1990s but the results were so embarrassingly bad that the tests were discontinued. Safety first.) Vermont Yankee is not alone in failing the mock attacks, but it does have the honor of having “the largest number of weaknesses of any reactor that...