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Though Davey isn’t noticeably uncomfortable in Harkness, HLS's makeshift student center, his assuredness fades when he talks about his place at HLS. Next to him, a group of lively students discuss race and the courts. Davey lowers his voice...
...series of sexual assaults sparked administrators’ creativity and spurred positive reforms. Likewise, HUPD—after resorting to stopgap measures during the crime wave—has found that its makeshift changes could become permanent solutions...
...convoy of unmarked SUVs through the broad, flat streets of Kirkuk, he heads for an outpost of the 4th Infantry Division, which has been rolling up resisters in the most dangerous swath of Iraq, running north and west of Baghdad. Rumsfeld is warm and engaging as he enters the makeshift U.S. Army headquarters--hailing soldiers, shaking hands, working the room like the old Chicago pol he is. But after a few minutes his face darkens, and the more notorious Rumsfeld emerges. Sitting at a briefing table, Major General Raymond Odierno, the 4th Infantry Division commander, is flashing a laser pointer...
Want a glimpse of the VOIP future? In mid-January, about two weeks before the Super Bowl, NFL Films plans to set up makeshift offices in about 20 trailers in the parking lot outside Houston's Reliant Stadium and use Cisco IP equipment to get on the NFL Films network. Several dozen employees will be relocated from company headquarters in Mount Laurel, N.J. Call one of them at her New Jersey phone number, and she will pick up a phone in the Houston trailer. Leave her a voice mail, and it will pop up in her e-mail account...
...Back on Dongting Lake, a reed cutter surnamed Song is resigned to the worms invading his body. During the colder months he serves as the plantation's caretaker, living in a makeshift lean-to made of reeds. One of the few ornaments inside his cramped quarters is a portrait of antidisease crusader Chairman Mao. Outside, the ground is littered with the shells of snails whose worms infect workers in warmer weather. Song's drinking and washing water, drawn from a brackish pit by his hut, also teems with Schistosoma worms in the summer. Naturally, Song has been diagnosed with snail...