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...Sept. 11, declared the commission investigating the 9/11 attacks in its 567-page report, the "United States became a nation transformed." From the shipyards of Seattle to the conventioneer-stuffed ballrooms of Boston, the scramble to prepare for the possibility of another attack offered a panorama last week of the country's metamorphosis. Police divers in the Port of Seattle combed the hulls of cruise ships for explosive devices. The Secret Service ordered that all food deliveries to Boston's Fleet Center, site of the Democratic National Convention, be tested for radioactive material. In Hennepin County, Minn., 2,500 government...
...CHICAGO Located on the 95th floor of the John Hancock Building, the women's toilets at the Signature Room restaurant offer a spectacular panorama of downtown Chicago through floor-to-ceiling windows. Meanwhile, at the city's Voyeur nightclub, women using the bathroom can operate a closed-circuit surveillance system that shows pictures of the dance floor outside?perfect for tracking a cheating date or possible catch...
...practice such as Huyghe’s, which has made use of photography, film, video, sculpture, architecture, and new media, corresponds closely with the panorama one gets as he or she descends from the third floor landing, down the ramp to Prescott Street...
...neck as punishment. She finally fled after the camp was closed following the 2002 elections. She now lives in South Africa, but remains terrified that her former captors will somehow find her. Debbie is far from alone in her suffering. In interviews conducted for the BBC's Panorama TV program in the slums of Johannesburg, dozens of youths - some traumatized like Debbie, many others now laden with guilt - described similar experiences in government-run camps around Zimbabwe in which youths are, the witnesses say, trained to maim, torture and kill. Youths who have fled the camps say they are used...
...though this is not enshrined in Zimbabwean law. "These guys are going to be used by the ruling party," says the camp commander, who has already received his instructions prior to the next elections. "Our main concern is that we keep this opposition party out of power." After the Panorama program aired in Britain late last month, Zimbabwe's government denounced its content as "lies" and Western propaganda designed to misrepresent the political situation in Zimbabwe. The government said the camps were used to teach youths patriotism, discipline and entrepreneurial skills. "National Youth Service graduates have no record of violent...