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...sweltering morning in mid-July, several hundred Athenians gathered in the hope of defeating an old stereotype. The Athens tram--shut down in 1960 by a government that thought mass transit was obsolete--was being relaunched to help reduce gridlock at the 2004 Summer Olympics. With the first tram of the new era due to arrive at Syntagma Square at 10 a.m., people spontaneously assembled on the platform to celebrate. "Greeks love a party," explained Maikl Tzamaloukas, 78, before launching into a popular song from his youth--"Go, go/Get the last train!"--and dancing away down the platform...
Highway Watch, which will receive an additional $22 million next year, preserves the part of TIPS concerned with monitoring behavior in public space. The Department of Homeland Security has also launched Port Watch, River Watch and Transit Watch. Then there are the familiar Neighborhood Watch groups, many of which have expanded their missions to include homeland security. In New York City, government outsourcing of surveillance has even trickled down to doormen and building superintendents, thousands of whom are being trained to watch out for strange trucks parked near buildings and tenants who move in without furniture...
...professional astronomers, the Venus transit served as both an exciting observing opportunity and as a positive source of publicity for astronomy...
...transit coincided as well with a meeting in Cambridge of the team for NASA’s Kepler mission, which aims to detect Earth-like extrasolar planets using transits...
...meeting was planned for Cambridge so team members could see the transit clearly—some flew in from the west coast where the transit was not visible...