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...growing --bill for the war efforts may be getting some new auditors. Over the past three years, Congress has approved $320 billion for military spending over and above the regular Department of Defense budget, which itself has risen about 40% since 2001. But "oversight was lax," contends Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island, who sits on the Armed Services Committee. As Pentagon officials head to Capitol Hill next week to start defending this year's $70 billion request for Iraq and Afghanistan, there's new scrutiny of where all the cash is going...
...field interview. When being questioned by the officers, the individual became belligerent and uncooperative. The individual was run for wants and warrants with negative results. Since the individual in question was a suspect in a Cambridge case, local police arrived on scene and arrested the individual. —REED B. RAYMAN
...that just smoked up a lot,” he said. “They just put too much wood into the fire. There was no panic and no visible damage.” The Cambridge Fire Department could not be reached for comment. —Staff writer Reed B. Rayman can be reached at rrayman@fas.harvard.edu...
...Developing high-rise living on the riverfront-mixed with single-family housing-means the population of pre-Katrina New Orleans could fit on about half the land it covers now, according to Tulane School of Architecture dean Reed Kroloff. He notes that Washington, D.C., quickly turned around its inner core by offering tax incentives and other inducements for people to return. Inner New Orleans is ripe for a similar rebirth: It has the highest number of blighted and derelict houses-over 30,000-that could bring homeowners and developers back to neighborhoods like Treme, a rundown version of Uptown...
...waste generated by the city's 240,000 pets; Norcal plans to place receptacles in parks in a pilot program scheduled to start within a year, at the behest of city officials. "Some day we're going to be an energy company," says Norcal spokesman Robert Reed. As for the smell, Norcal says the bio-digesting process acts as a deodorizer...