Word: metropolitane
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...such tasks. Standard international procedures begin by designating the mortuary site and forming an Identification Commission. In the London case, the commission is headed by Reid and the Westminster coroner, Paul Knapman, who led the inquest into a 1996 IRA bus bombing that killed the perpetrator; it also includes Metropolitan Police Service officers, forensic pathologists and dental experts, who act much like a tribunal in ruling on identity. Commission members study information provided by friends, relatives, doctors and dentists of the missing, and compare it to their own postmortem findings from victims' bodies, clothing and personal effects. All bodies...
...making her case, Hoxby used the number of rivers and streams in a metropolitan area as a predictor of the number of districts in that area. She then employed a technique called instrumental variable regression to isolate the effect of school district size on test scores...
...Owen King: In Bangor, Maine. It's the last real metropolitan area in the states. It's Bangor, and then 10 hours to Quebec. Everything in between is trees...
...Rosenthal returned to New York City as metropolitan editor and moved to overcome the long-standing criticism that the Times slighted local news for national and international affairs. Says Gay Talese, a former Times reporter who chronicled the newspaper in his book The Kingdom and the Power: "He brought prestige back to the New York staff...
...Rosenthal lieutenants as Gelb and Greenfield remain in place. Both, however, face mandatory retirement in less than three years, enabling Frankel to select his own deputies from a younger cadre of Times-men. Among the candidates: Assistant Managing Editor Craig Whitney, 43; Foreign Editor Warren Hoge, 45; and Metropolitan Editor John Vinocur, 46, who is expected to become editor of the Paris-based International Herald Tribune, which is partly owned by the Times...