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...Growing up in a rough neighborhood in Ypsilanti, MI, outside of Detroit, Jenkins had plenty of chances to wreck his own life. But his father, a middle school African-American studies and drama teacher, wouldn?t let that happen to his gangly, clumsy young son. ?I couldn?t stand it when he?d wup me with those belts, those paddles,? Jenkins says. ?Some people called it abusive. But being where I am now, I really appreciate his discipline. He taught me that the world isn?t a nice place, that there would be consequences for my actions.? Darome Jenkins...
...impact of the new policing regime been felt more strongly than in the city's 77th division, which straddles the 110 Freeway five miles south of downtown. In 2002 it was the most violent of all 18 police districts in Los Angeles, with 118 murders in its 12 sq. mi. Mirroring the L.A.P.D. as a whole, cops in the 77th had become demoralized and cynical following the 1991 Rodney King beating and the 1999 police-corruption scandal in the Rampart district. Many admit they had adopted a "drive and wave" style of policing, in which they rarely...
...mote is good for a decade. Most important, the motes have minuscule radio transmitters that talk to other motes (or to a base station connected to a PC) within 100 feet or so. With a single network of 10,000 motes, the upper limit, you could cover 9 sq. mi.--and get information about each point along...
...vehicle convoy curls past the Adhamiya police station and heads north along the Tigris River, which bounds the neighborhood on two sides. Of the 88 sectors in Baghdad, Adhamiya is rated by the U.S. command among the six most dangerous for coalition forces. The 1.2sq.-mi. area is home to 400,000 people, most of them Sunni Muslims. The anti-American graffiti that blankets the walls of neighborhood buildings attests to the strong resistance to the U.S. presence here. Spray-painted in Arabic and English, it reads, DOWN USA. LONG LIVE SADDAM. YES TO MARTYRDOM FOR THE SAKE...
...place itself. Escape is a long shot. The base is a prison, and a jewelry box. "You can't be too careful protecting this enormously valuable intelligence trove," says Army General Geoffrey Miller, commander of the joint task force that runs the detainee operation on the 45-sq.-mi. base. And so there are constant perimeter patrols by infantry squads in full battle gear, and visitors get turned inside out before they're allowed anywhere near the cellblocks. Getting out legally doesn't seem much easier. The detainees--660 suspects from 44 countries, scooped up in the war on terrorism...