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...that Cambridge is one of the few cities whose non-911 callers interact with a human operator and not an automated directory. Many cities use automated systems to answer municipal inquiries instead of hiring workers to do it because the funds that would have been funneled into salaries for personnel can be redirected to other services...
...alarm fire, for example, requires aid from all of Cambridge’s surrounding cities. Dispatchers then contact emergency workers from nearby towns to move in and help. This system is dubbed “mutual aid.” Each time another city’s personnel comes in to help, workers from cities even further afield must move in to take their position...
Each dispatcher, however, is also trained to handle situations in which help is needed while emergency personnel is en route to the scene. These situations include suicidal callers and those trying to assist women who are giving birth. If a caller is helping someone who is in labor, it is the dispatcher who leads the caller through delivering the child until the emergency responders arrive...
...reports that the CIA established clandestine bases on European soil to imprison suspected terrorists for questioning, and transported those detainees through European airports. Rice's declaration-in what some see as a departure for U.S. policy-that U.S. treaty obligations prohibiting cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment extended to U.S. personnel "wherever they are" helped quiet some of those concerns. So, too, did her allowance, unusual for a Bush Administration member, that the U.S. may have made mistakes in the course of pursuing its war on terror. But the reports are putting pressure on some erstwhile allies. Germany's new foreign...
...described as the use of force, isn’t necessarily worse than soft power, he said. “Osama bin Laden has soft power in the eyes of his following,” he said. Nye criticized the military for trying to create soft power when personnel tried to bribe the Iraqi press to print stories praising Americans. “This squandered one of the greatest resources for soft power—durability,” he said. “The role of the military should be to do what it does well...