Word: interpolates
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...between Frankfurt, New York, Washington and Ottawa to nab the passengers before they slipped through J.F.K.'s immigration hall. But the list of stolen passports against which they were checked hailed from another place entirely: a modern, five-story building in Lyons, France, which is the global headquarters of Interpol...
...Nearly 85 years after law-enforcement officials from 20 countries formed Interpol, the world's first international police organization, it is scrambling to craft an expanded role for itself in an age of terrorism and global mobility. For decades it was a clubby, European-dominated organization, some of whose agents were seconded to their jobs by law-enforcement services back home as cushy sinecures after years in the police trenches. Staff in Lyons worked regular office hours, took wine-soaked lunches in a city renowned for its excellent cuisine, and hit the nearby ski slopes on winter weekends. Few outside...
...Interpol is demanding more attention and getting it, thanks to a dramatic shift in its scope engineered by Interpol secretary-general Ronald K. Noble. The former Under Secretary for Enforcement at the U.S. Treasury - where he oversaw the Secret Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms - Noble arrived in Lyons in 2000 as the first non-European ever to head Interpol. His appointment through a vote by all member countries came after fierce lobbying by both Noble and U.S. officials, who were keen to end Europe's grip on Interpol's leadership. Noble came with one driving mission...
...from his brother in New Hampshire. "He said: 'Ronnie, did you see what happened in New York?'" Noble recalls. He hadn't. He turned on CNN just in time to see the second plane hit the World Trade Center. "That's when we knew the world had changed for Interpol," he says. "We went 24/7 that day." Noble immediately instituted round-the-clock monitoring of news and e-mails from a command and coordination center two floors below his office - a sharp break from Interpol's previous working hours. That room is now the center of Interpol's nervous system...
...given free Alpha-Dot kits to all its customers. Stuck on the frame of a painting or at the base of a statue, the tiny dots are almost invisible to the naked eye and each is imprinted with a unique number linking the artwork with its church. Meanwhile, Interpol recently proposed a scheme to insert identity chips into religious works, which would allow agents to track them if they ended up with auction houses or dealers...