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...Ridley. Organizers will use hand-held scanners to record the name, age, gender, and medical status of every injured athlete. The information will then be available to event organizers and local hospitals. Family and friends will be able to inquire about a runner’s status at a kiosk near the finish line. The main purpose of such a system is to ensure that no runner is lost, but public health officials say they hope to use the Boston Marathon as a test of the patient tracking system. Officials hope to implement a similar system to respond to disaster...
...same time. Like hundreds of other young people boxed in by riot police between the Bon Marché department store and the Hotel Lutetia in the heart of the Left Bank, his eyes were running in reaction to pungent tear gas and smoke from a burning newspaper kiosk. Amid the uproar, Diakite and his fellow students felt a budding sense of empowerment. Up to half a million young people had gone, some riotously, to the streets throughout France on Thursday. Then, joined by union members and sympathizers, as many as 1.5 million participated in marches on Saturday, some of which...
...weeping at the same time. Like hundreds of other young people boxed in by riot police between the Bon Marché department store and the Hotel Lutetia in the heart of the Left Bank, Diakite was choking in air pungent with tear gas and smoke from a burning newspaper kiosk. Amid the uproar, he and his fellow students felt a budding--and maybe false--sense of empowerment. Could half a million young people in the streets throughout France bring an embattled government to its knees...
...Committee on College Life (CCL) revisited the issue of the rapidly increasing number of student groups at its monthly meeting yesterday. Some committee members said that the limited resources available for student groups—such as Undergraduate Council (UC) grant money, space for meetings, and kiosk space to post flyers—have been stretched thin as a result of the increase. Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd said after the meeting that the rate at which the number of student groups grows “seems to be exponential” and that yesterday...
...current, confusing menu. The best new feature is a tool that converts information from any slide into a graphic that you can refine with an easy-to-use menu of ready-made options. And the software simplifies some menu choices only experts used to know about, including an improved "kiosk" that will run your presentation automatically...