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Among the new security measures, 16 color TV cameras have been installed to monitor activities indoors and out. Students will be issued identification badges, and access to locked entryways will be restricted to holders of electronic cards. A third uniformed guard will join a roving patrol that includes an armed Jefferson County deputy sheriff. Mental-health counselors and nurses will be on hand if needed. There will also be a designated "safe room" for those overcome by emotion. Jackson Katz, a California-based authority on male violence, is being brought in to lecture coaches and activities directors about tolerance...
...excuse to start fighting, so Tuesday?s shooting down of a Pakistani military plane will be a real test of the two countries? restraint. Just weeks after Pakistan ? under intense international pressure ? withdrew its forces from the Indian side of Kashmir, Indian combat planes shot down a Pakistani coastal patrol plane killing all 16 people on board, including five naval officers. India said the plane was downed while flying over its airspace; Pakistan insisted the plane was on the Pakistani side of the border and said the location of the wreckage would prove...
...raised tempers on both sides," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "The fact that 16 people were killed will create serious pressure in Pakistan for some retaliation." Details of the incident remain sketchy, and are likely to be hotly contested. "Indians may ask why a routine coastal patrol was carrying 16 people," says Rahman. New Delhi maintains a tight vigil on its airspace in the coastal border region, and has on numerous occasions forced unauthorized intruders to land. "Normal practice is for Indian planes to force intruders to identify themselves, order them out of the area, and force them...
...past, present and future--"what we have been fighting against and fighting for." The against comes first. On a late-spring morning full of sunshine and blue water, we push off in a 26-ft. sportfishing boat used by Cronin's watchdog group, Riverkeeper Inc., to patrol the Hudson. Heading north, about 40 miles north of Manhattan, we see the Lovett Power Station on the west bank. The old, dark, brick coal-, gas- and oil-burning tangle of structures looks like a giant outdoor furnace. Beside it is a quarrying operation that once dumped a load of sand and gravel...
...Masino and other officers resulted in 18 arrests. To keep the gangsters from returning, Masino and officer Brian Kornegay opened a substation in one of the units. They gave a cell phone to the woman whose phone lines had been cut. When Masino pulls up now in his patrol car, that woman's seven grandchildren, no longer confined to the house, climb into his car to play with the lights and loudspeaker...