The students are learning not just traditional local reporting but also useful digital skills: publishing using Wordpress, exploiting Twitter, reciprocal linking, how to search for local stories online through Google Reader and Yahoo Pipes (using metasearches to pick out relevant stories) and monitoring the (rising) traffic with Google Analytics.
The United Nations' top human rights official, Navi Pillay, has repeated called for urgent action to halt the violence in Syria, underscoring the level of brutality of the conflict, calling for war crimes investigations on both sides and monitoring the rising death toll and refugee crisis.
In Pakistan authorities are monitoring the rising levels of the river Chenab, with plans in place to blow the embankment at two strategic places in order to protect the city of Multan.
But from reversing hangovers to avoiding traffic, these gadgets have the ability to make life as we all know it pretty sweet, if only time could be committed to their invention and prototyping instead of, I suppose, monitoring the rising sea levels to assess the best way to reduce the risks faced by coastal populations?
Population-based registries based on drug prescriptions and/or physicians' diagnoses or claims in routine care have become a cornerstone in monitoring the rising incidence and prevalence of diabetes in many countries.
Both the European Union and the Carter Center, an election-monitoring group run by former President Jimmy Carter, have said they will reduce their monitoring missions due to the rising tensions.
Bankhead ordered the engineers to start the Worthington pumps, which temporarily stemmed the rising waters, but soon Monitor was hit by a squall and a series of violent waves and water continued to work its way into the vessel.
Florida officials have done a better job than most in monitoring the rise of people with no cash income.
Told in a multiplicity of voices (James's acknowledgments note a structural debt to William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying), it draws on the accounts of gang leaders and their members; a CIA operative monitoring the rise of socialism in Jamaica and a Rolling Stone journalist on the trail of a reggae-mad Mick Jagger; groupies, drug dealers, users, murderers, and at least one ghost.
He watches them breathe, monitoring the rise and fall of the chest until just the right moment.
