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...like what I see here much more than everything else he showed us,” said local architect Gerrit Zwart after examining the model of Piano’s plans for the HUAM renovation in reference to the slide show of previous achievements which Piano displayed throughout his lecture...
...time. Meunier said she was particularly excited about the new program in Washington. “A lot of our students are really interested in urban education,” she said. “It’s a great opportunity for them to look at a new model and teach.” Despite these shifts, Meunier said that the budget for the ASB program—totaling approximately $50,000—will be “substantially smaller” than last year’s due to the economic climate. Operating costs for this year?...
...model for the centers grew out of "intelligence-led policing" - a British initiative with its roots in the early 1990s. It has evolved into "a management philosophy that places greater emphasis on information-sharing and collaborative, strategic solutions to crime problems," according to Dr. Jerry Ratcliffe, a former British police officer and currently a Temple University professor who has lectured and written extensively on the subject. "It facilitates holistic crime prevention," Ratcliffe says. Rather than each department, or even squad, having its own databases, fusion centers allow access to multiple databases and sources of intelligence; the drug squad...
Americans are fond of the idea that they can keep from doing "bad" drugs by taking "good" ones instead. The heroin/methadone model has actually been institutionalized: you can go to government-funded clinics to get methadone as "maintenance treatment" for heroin addiction - since both drugs bind to the same brain receptors. Experimental types in the '60s believed that LSD was a wonder drug that could cure alcoholism. The same claim was made during the '80s for a drug that was, at the time, perfectly legal and even used by a few psychotherapists: MDMA, a chemical now better known as ecstasy...
...madrasah, separate schools for boys and girls, a free hospital and a university. Its founders, Hafiz Saeed, Zafar Iqbal and Abdullah Azzam - the latter was bin Laden's mentor until he was killed by a car bomb in Peshawar in 1989 - declared that their objective was to create a model Islamic environment removed from state interference. Education would focus on jihad but also emphasize science and technology. The campus includes stables, fishponds, playing fields, a foundry, a carpentry workshop, a mosque and computer-enabled classrooms. It is better equipped than most Pakistani state universities...