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...given day, HUPD officers patrol the campus in marked cruisers and unmarked cars, on motorcycles or bicycles and on foot. The department is on duty 24 hours a day, every...
...Back on the streets, most of his patrol will be spent watching sidewalks and alleys through the window...
...astonish most city residents worldwide. Inner-city suburbs echo to the screech of sulfur-crested cockatoos and the laughter of sturdy kookaburras; brilliant rainbow lorikeets hang upside down in fruit trees squabbling over berries. As night falls, mighty Port Jackson fig trees discharge clouds of flying foxes, while possums patrol urban gardens and clatter across the rooftops. Everywhere, in parks, gardens, at the water's edge, the luxuriant subtropical vegetation-mosses and ferns, cabbage palms, ash and she-oak, ancient angophora forests and a hundred species of gum tree-reminds the resident that humans have a tenuous hold on this...
...born in the spring and learn to hunt by summer. The sharks move close to shore, chasing baitfish as the water temperature warms up. "They get into the surf line and get disoriented, and they start biting whatever moves," says Joe Wooden, deputy chief of Volusia County's beach patrol...
...effect of the bombings has been to encourage a kind of scrappy vigilantism. Local "committees" now patrol and protect apartment buildings. Suspicious people and unattended packages prompt immediate calls to the police--all in all, a state of affairs that is a far cry from the image of a well-managed democracy Putin has tried to show the West...