Tag: crime

• Manhattan Housekeepers Get Panic Buttons

  12 months ago

  Lindsay Beyerstein in Focal Point

  Housekeepers at the Pierre Hotel will get panic buttons in the wake of two highly publicized attacks on Manhattan hotel cleaners. The buttons are part of a deal hashed out between the management and the union. The Sofitel Hotel, where form IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn allegedly attacked a ... Read More

• CSI Microbiology: Germ Fingerprints Could Help Catch Criminals

  about 2 years ago

  Lindsay Beyerstein in Focal Point

  Each of us is unique and special. So too are the bacterial communities infesting our grimy palms. As we move through the world, we deposit a potentially incriminating microbial film on everything we touch. Scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder hope that our individual germ prints will ... Read More