The body will monitor all government decrees and legislation for potential conflicts involving public officials down to the level of mayor in Italy's 10 largest cities. "We will have to find independent people, experts perhaps in antitrust," Mr. Pera said.
A correction brought test scores nearly back to the starting levels of the mayor's tenure, replacing a narrative of historic gains with one of slow progress.
Meanwhile, the rivers have continued to swell toward what analysts say will be historic levels, prompting Mayor Judson Childs of Cairo to issue a mandatory evacuation for this city of 3,000.
"Political leaders at all levels of government, including city mayors, are now starting to pay attention and take action," Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of WHO, said in a statement.
"From the 12th to the 15th we were in a location with one of the highest levels of radiation," said Tamotsu Baba, the mayor of Namie, which is about five miles from the nuclear plant.
Despite three decades of progressively more extensive and stringent regulatory controls, there is ongoing concern about unhealthful ambient levels of air pollution in Houston, Texas (Mayor's Task Force 2006; Rice University 2006).
It said the city alert level had not changed -- it remains at "orange," the second most severe level, as it has through the administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The monotonic relationship enables the THD to sense the methanol concentration level by the DMFC itself, which is of mayor interest for the portable application as an external sensor for the system can be omitted.
"It took us to another level of urgency," the mayor said.
