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...sexy dancer? Do you live in the N.Y. Metro Area?” the site asks. It proceeds to solicit résumés and pictures from interested applicants—to be sent to his post.harvard e-mail address...
Last year Roberts dismissed a case brought by the mother of a 12-year-old girl who had been hauled off in handcuffs for eating a single French fry in the Washington Metro; she claimed her Fourth Amendment and equal-protection rights had been violated, in part because, under the law, an adult would only have received a citation from the police. Roberts has also come down consistently, most recently in a dissent last week, in favor of police searches and seizures that were arguably conducted without probable cause. Still, last year he ordered the resentencing...
...least 15 Washington stations also have chemical sensors. That leaves some 30 stations unprotected, and the sensors are still not perfect. But they are a good--and expensive--part of a larger surveillance strategy. If a sensor goes off, Metro officials check out the platform using closed-circuit video. They scan for odd packages or riders showing signs of illness. The idea is to identify a problem--fast--so evacuation can begin. That's because while a train bombing is bad, a biological, chemical or radiation attack on a train is an epidemic snaking through a city...
...probably been some overruns, but I still consider Athens' legacy to be a very good one," says Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee ( i.o.c.). "It's a new city. They have the airport, they have the ring road, they have the suburban trains and they have the metro." You might think that in light of Athens' very mixed record, other cities would look at the Greek experience and shy away. You would think wrong. On July 6, in Singapore, the i.o.c. will announce which city will next take up the Olympic torch and host the 2012 Summer Games...
...reference to the controversy over his remarks on women in science. (Summers had been mentioned in just 11 articles by the same time in 2004.) Richard C. Levin, the president of Yale, has found his way into the Times just twice this year, never making it out of the Metro section...