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...together a program in which teachers, parents and students review antibullying rules at the start of each year. The students do role-playing exercises and sign contracts promising not to bully. Teachers incorporate lessons about bullying and coping strategies into classwork. The school has also hired extra staff to monitor places like lunchrooms and playgrounds...
...despite the relative ease in installing the high tech buoys and underwater sensors needed to monitor earthquakes and tsunamis in the region, a greater problem exists. The monitoring system is of very little use if the information from warnings cannot be distributed quickly and effectively. Unfortunately, many of the coastal villages affected by the two disasters lack the basic modern communication technology necessary to respond. Without telephones and effective response plans, the early-warning systems will be of little use to the devastated areas...
...December 1998 the U.N. chose the Swiss company Cotecna to monitor imports of humanitarian goods to Iraq under the oil-for-food program. The following month, newspaper reports revealed that the company had employed Kojo Annan, the son of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and raised questions about possible conflicts of interest, which the U.N. denied. The scandal grew when evidence emerged that Saddam Hussein had skimmed some $2 billion from the $65 billion program. Last April Annan asked Paul Volcker, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve, to investigate those issues. In February his panel released its first report...
...group called the Civil Homeland Defense Corps, he is spearheading a new Minuteman Project that will place volunteers at quarter-mile intervals to watch a busy 50-mile stretch of border for the entire month of April. The goal, he says, is not to confront migrants but to monitor and report their locations to the U.S. Border Patrol...
...INDICATORS Broken Trust The European Commission rejected Microsoft's proposals to curb the power of a monitor charged with policing its compliance with antitrust sanctions imposed one year ago. The firm has until April 11 to respond...