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...good thing about monuments is they commemorate the past. Last year the city inaugurated a Community Oriented Policing Squad (COPS), now headed by Compass, a name so foursquare no novelist would dare invent it. With secondhand furniture and federal money, police set up round-the-clock substations in vacant apartments at three of the city's most deadly projects. The 45 cops assigned to them work foot patrol, get to know the law-abiding residents and sweep out the street dealers. They also help pick up trash, combat graffiti and round up kids who play hooky...
...broke up with its star last year. The couple lived together for six years, but some reports suggest it was Shandling who split from the former Playboy model. "Mr. Shandling is deeply saddened by these outrageous and false charges," said a spokesman. "Ms. Doucett's attempts to exploit and invent this matter will be dealt with through the appropriate legal channels." And, one hopes, on the show...
...opting for a safer, solid-fuel rocket had its drawbacks too; a rocket of this type small enough to fit into the shuttle's cargo bay would not yield enough power to thrust Galileo into a direct flight to Jupiter. "It took the project a while to invent a new way for Galileo to get to Jupiter," says J.P.L. director Edward Stone, "but there was a sense of 'It can be done...
...invent such a technology? One glance at what you can do with Java, and most people are immediately convinced that it's a good thing. And it is. Java allows you to extend the capability of your Web browser, enabling you to incorporate useful real-time applications into your browser or play nifty animations and sounds...
...have hampered the fit? More important, it was Mark Fuhrman who found the glove in Simpson's yard. More than once, the jury heard excerpts from the letter by Kathleen Bell, a Fuhrman acquaintance, who said he told her if he wanted to arrest an interracial couple, he would invent a charge if necessary...