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...matter of policy we don’t comment on exact staffing levels or patrol techniques,” he said. “I can tell you we have dramatically increased our uniformed and plain clothed presence but I can’t give you exact numbers...
DIED. FRANCESCO SCAVULLO, 82, fashion photographer who could make plain women look beautiful and fashion models look like Cosmo girls; in New York City. Scavullo's work was published in Rolling Stone, TIME, Sports Illustrated and Harper's Bazaar, but he was best known for photographing more than 300 Cosmopolitan covers from 1965 to 1997 in which Scavullo's lights and lenses, and his team's exacting attention to skin, hair and costume, produced a look that became unique to the magazine. Scavullo did celebrity portraits, glamorized Watergate figure Martha Mitchell for a 1974 cover of New York magazine...
...Innovators' joy in their work is plain to see. Says writer-reporter Unmesh Kher, who penned the profile of physicist Thundat: "A part of his charm derives from the obvious fact that he isn't so much working in his laboratories as he is having fun. He perks up with boyish glee whenever he finds some reflection of his technology in nature--in the cantilever-like tactile sensilla of ants, for instance, or the clusters of sensory hairs in the human inner ear." We believe that when you read about the Innovators this week and in the months ahead...
...America in New York City that supposedly contained about $5 billion turned out not to exist. All the paperwork, including written confirmation from the bank to Parmalat's auditors, had been forged, Bank of America said. "What is shocking here is that it appears the assets were just plain fabricated," says Evan D. Flaschen, an attorney at the U.S. law firm Bingham McCutchen, who represents institutional holders of Parmalat bonds...
...Meanwhile, new bases will open up in the former Warsaw Pact countries of Eastern Europe. Some G.I.s may even find themselves in Soviet-era bases that they once defended against. "We're not expecting the Soviet Union to launch a major tank war across the north German plain," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said while visiting Iraq last September. "So we need to adjust our footprint." Just how that footprint will change has yet to be decided, Pentagon officials say. They denied reports last week that up to 40,000 soldiers and support staff with the First Armored Division and First...