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...firestorm to provoke speculation about whether the controversial Commissioner may be forced out of his job before his contract expires in 2010. In July 2005, Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian living in London, was mistaken by police marksmen for a suicide bomber and shot to death at Stockwell Underground station. The tragic bungle came 15 days after terror attacks in the capital killed 52 people and the morning after a second, failed bombing attempt. The shooting has already been the subject of two reports by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), which found some fault with the handling...
...cold room," a hollowed out cave about 6 m below the surface, where drillers will carve the cores in sections, to be bagged, tagged and eventually flown back to the Center for Ice and Science in Copenhagen, where they will be fully analyzed. The work is done underground to make sure the ice stays stable - though we're far above the Arctic Circle, with the open sun the temperature is only -6 degrees or -7 degrees C, though the wind can make it feel worse on the open snow. The sprawling cold room is also where the main drilling...
...July 13, my westbound train on the Central Line of the London Underground subway system was pulling into Queensway station when it abruptly stopped. The driver's voice came over the intercom. The message was meant for the control room, but we passengers heard it too. "We have got one under," the driver squawked. "Send emergency crews immediately. He jumped. We have one under...
...said in 1967, ''which is expensive.'' At their zenith in 1977, the Sex Pistols peevishly canceled a Saturday Night Live appearance. SNL creator Lorne Michaels, who has himself made a lucrative career out of counterculturalism, complained, ''It's very strange that a group that prides itself on representing the underground turns us down because we can't pay them enough.'' Punk, essentially a working-class British genre, never went fully mainstream in happy-face America. But since then the U.S. has become a significant bit more like Britain: the sense of tapped-out, no-hope job anxiety that has settled...
...methods to outwit the Border Patrol. Hundreds of aliens who used to wade the river are now trying to cross it on the bridges, with the help of phony documents; the INS reported a 300% jump in bogus papers. Recently, a group of young men discovered a maze of underground drainage culverts off the river and threaded their way through the dark, slimy reaches, emerging through manhole covers in downtown El Paso. A few were apparently running drugs, but others were intent on nothing more sinister than getting to gardening and handyman jobs on the American side...