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...certain how many are in Iraq; even the Pentagon doesn't keep track. Democratic Representative Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, who has taken a personal interest in Katy Helvenston's story, introduced a bill in the House that would, for the first time, require the creation of databases to monitor the deployment and cost of contractors. Only last fall did the Department of Defense conduct a poll of some contracting companies, which came back with the suspiciously round number of 100,000 contractors operating in Iraq. "An owner of a circus," says Peter Singer, author of Corporate Warriors, "faces more regulation...
...states that if a student receives two notices, his or her network privileges are revoked, Levine said. He added that cases where students had to have network privileges revoked were very rare. In his remarks, Berman asked rhetorically, “Since universities are the only parties that can monitor file sharing...—shouldn’t they bear some responsibility for monitoring piracy that takes place over their networks?” Levine said in response that a hypothetical policy that would allow Harvard administrators to monitor students’ files “smacks of being...
...projects in Ethiopia with a school group. "That changed the rest of my life," says Ruxin, 36. "I couldn't believe that people so desperately poor were living on the same planet as we were." After earning a doctorate at University College London in medical history, he joined the Monitor Group, a management consultancy in Cambridge, Mass. "There's a dearth of management skills in nonprofits," he says, explaining that choice. When some colleagues broke away to focus on economic development in underdeveloped regions, he signed on. During a visit, he learned that every one of his African clients...
Here, a few of Mikami's staff monitor about 200 audio and video channels for glitches in service for MobiTV's carriers. Can't hear XM Radio or NPR? Call Mikami. Frozen CNN video? Call Mikami--provided the rare instance that someone on his staff of 45 (up from 6 in April 2005) can't handle it. NOC-ers flag problems by closely analyzing snippets of audio and video contents. "The NOC folks act as the first tier and open up the trouble tickets and provide the meat of the information that allows our technical staff to handle the problem...
...Still, it may take more than meditation to keep this particular neighborhood peaceful. UNIFIL's core mission is to monitor the ceasefire that ended last summer's war between Israel and Hizballah, which is complicated by the fact that Hizballah still considers Israel to be occupying a small patch of Lebanese land, while Israel believes Hizballah wants to retain the capacity to rain rockets on towns in northern Israel...