Word: monitors
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...weeks and days leading up to the marathon, Harvard runners have attempted to monitor their eating and sleeping habits, log hours running around Cambridge and Boston, and deal with nerves in anticipation of the marathon...
...acre Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City on the outskirts of Bombay is a showcase for India's high-tech sector. There, some 8,000 employees of Reliance Group, the country's largest private conglomerate, operate call centers, monitor the company's fiber-optic network and update data services provided to cell-phone subscribers. Many would not associate the gleaming campus with Reliance, which blossomed under legendary founder Dhirubhai Ambani in traditional industries such as textiles and petrochemicals. But Knowledge City is evidence that a new generation of Ambanis is reinventing India's most powerful business enterprise...
...workers in new factories like Venus Jewel are adult, and the work environment is comfortable and well lit, albeit pervaded by paranoia. Closed-circuit cameras monitor many parts of the factory, and S.P. Shah, whose family owns Venus Jewel, sits in front of four screens and watches obsessively. Although the industry is rife with rumors that workers are locked in factories if diamonds go astray, Shah denies that his own employees are ill treated. "If a stone goes missing," he says, "we try and persuade the workers to give it back, and this usually works...
...makes between its political and military wings is fictitious. And Sharon's aggressive campaign of assassination, targeting Hamas from top to bottom, including the formerly immune political figures, has altered Hamas' behavior. Militants, for example, have stopped going to the hospital when a confrere is injured because Israel will monitor the place to pick up their trails. Unable to use phones or cars, they communicate by encrypted e-mail or in hurried personal rendezvous. The impact on Hamas' public leaders has been even more dramatic. Last September, al-Zahar's house was flattened by an Israeli bomb that wounded...
Brennan insists TTIC doesn't run spy operations inside the U.S., which the CIA is prohibited from doing. But, he says, as TTIC chief he can quickly get the FBI to do so to fill "gaps in our knowledge." The center is helping to monitor "a lot of folks who have acquired U.S. citizenship or green cards that are engaged in international terrorism," says Brennan. A well-placed source says the FBI now keeps tabs on about 400 individuals in the U.S. who are thought to be sympathetic to al-Qaeda or somehow connected to Sunni extremism...