An operations-center assistant, who summarized the call for me over my car phone just after it occurred, made an uncharacteristic editorial comment: "It was not a good call, ambassador".
"It wasn't big enough to be destructive," said Stuart Weinstein, the center's assistant director.
The performance center's assistant vice president of arts education, Sanaz Hojreh, agreed.
The curators of the new main exhibition are Mr. Flug and the center's assistant director, Ayala Tamir.
"I've gotten questions about what time does the train get to the Port Authority," said Melissa Gissentanner, the center's assistant manager.
"At this time there is no connection between him and the attack on the World Trade Center," said Assistant Chief Thomas Fahey.
Rather than measuring air pollutants, the objective is to extrapolate an emissions profile by noting details like what type of fuel is used in the equipment, said Susan Stuver, the center's assistant director.
As a technical enterprise, Chinapol is modest: it's housed on the server of U.C.L.A.'s Center for Chinese Studies, administered by the center's assistant director, with some technical support provided by the U.C.L.A. International Institute.
The center's assistant director, Dwayne Williams, said his program was being used in so many cities, including several that competed for the new Air Force command, that his organization was prohibited from assisting hometown officials in making the pitch to the Air Force because of insider knowledge on weaknesses in computer security systems of those other cities.
Dr. Kevin Grisham, the center's assistant director for research, said, "The study shows statements by political leaders can be followed by distinct changes in hate crime incidents".
Dr. Jack Maypole, a pediatrician and member of the Educational Advisory Board for The Goddard School, director of the SPARK center, and assistant professor at Boston University School of Medicine and practices in the Department of Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center offers some sage advice.
