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Spy balloons give police Ginsburg recovering after heart surgery new views of Jerusalem Supreme Court justice, 81, has stent put in By Aron Heller and Ami Bentov The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Israeli police are watching from above in their attempts to keep control in Jerusalem in the face of the city’s worst wave of violence in nearly a decade. Police have been flying surveillance balloons over the city’s eastern sector and Old City — the location of its most sensitive holy sites — to monitor protests and move in on them quickly. They say the puffy white balloons, which carry a rotating spherical camera pod, have greatly helped quell the unrest. But the eyes in the sky are unnerving Palestinians. “They want to discover everything that’s going on. [They see] who is going, who is coming, who is that person,” said Imad Muna, who works at a local bookstore. The Israeli company that makes the Skystar 180 aerostat system says the balloons can stay in the air for 72 hours and carry highly sensitive cameras. Rami Shmueli, the CEO of RT LTA Systems Ltd, said his company gives police a “third dimension” in their quest to quell tensions in east Jerusalem, where they have been clashing regularly with masked youths hurling rocks and firebombs. “We give them an aerial view of the streets and those people who are throwing stones, we can detect them even if they hide behind buildings or in gardens,” said Shmueli. “When we see them and when we see their activity, we can direct the police forces to their location.
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And even if they escape we can follow them and make sure that police catch them.” Over the past month, 11 people have been killed in Palestinian attacks, including a deadly assault last week on a Jerusalem synagogue that killed five people. Most of the violence has occurred in Jerusalem, along with deadly attacks in Tel Aviv and the West Bank. The helium-filled balloons were successfully used in Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip last summer. While various types of surveillance blimps have been used in the Jerusalem area for years, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said a strategic decision was recently made to increase their use. “It is tremendously important and gives us gives a 360-degree view of what is going on,” Rosenfeld said. “Our units can respond a lot quicker, a lot faster and much more effectively.” The balloons are part of a broad collection of surveillance equipment that includes security cameras throughout the city, including 320 of them in the Old City — as well as undercover units, riot-control forces and intelligence gathering. Sheik Ikrima Sabri, imam of the Al Aqsa Mosque, said Palestinians are well accustomed to the aerial surveillance of mass prayers each Friday. But he said the new surveillance over residential areas is a problem. “It is practically over the houses. It violates the privacy of people. There are women in the houses, and these machines can photograph them,” he said.
WASHINGTON — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent a heart procedure Wednesday morning and was expected to leave the hospital within the next two days, the Supreme Court announced. Ginsburg, 81, “experienced discomfort during routine exercise” on Tuesday night and was taken to MedStar Washington Hospital Center, the court said in a statement. Doctors placed a stent in her right coronary artery, a procedure known as a coronary catheterization. “She is resting comfortably,” the statement said. Kathleen Arberg, the court’s public information officer, added that “Justice Ginsburg expects to be on the bench on Monday.” The court is scheduled to hear two arguments that day, including one on how the First Amendment applies to threats conveyed on Facebook. Ginsburg is the senior member of the court’s four-person liberal wing, a role she seems to enjoy. She has resisted calls for her resignation from liberals who say they want President Barack Obama to name her replacement, rather than a possible Republican successor. The issue is now largely moot. The Republican takeover of the Senate next month will almost certainly narrow the range of candidates who could be confirmed in the last two years of Obama’s presidency.
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Ginsburg was named to the court in 1993 by President Bill Clinton. She was the first Democratic appointment since 1967, when President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall. She is now the oldest member of the Supreme Court and has shown no signs of slowing down. She stayed up all night last month to put the finishing touches on a dissent from an order allowing Texas to use its strict voter ID law. The opinion was issued shortly after 5 a.m. In the interview last year, she said her age has required only minor adjustments. “I don’t water-ski anymore,” Ginsburg said. “I haven’t gone horseback riding in four years. I haven’t ruled that out entirely. But water-skiing, those days are over.”
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By Mike Stobbe The Associated Press
NEW YORK — For three weeks, Dr. John Fankhauser and his family lived in two RVs in a meadow in North Carolina, watching movies, playing cards and huddling around a fire pit — with no other campers around. But their isolation was interrupted each morning by a visit from a public health nurse, who came to ask Fankhauser how he was feeling and to watch him take his temperature. The doctor is one of the more than 2,600 people who have undergone the 21-day ritual ordered by the federal government to guard against cases of Ebola from entering the country from West Africa. Now, anyone who has traveled from four West African nations is monitored for three weeks for fever and other signs of the disease. The program reaches the one-month mark on Thursday, and so far, it hasn’t found any cases of Ebola. It’s up to local officials to decide how to keep track of the travelers who end up in their states, and determine what — if any — restrictions to impose. Most checking is done through daily phone calls, often with the person calling in to report their temperature and any symptoms. And by all accounts, most travelers have been cooperative. Last week during a Congressional hearing, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden said health officials lost track of only a tiny proportion of travelers — “less than 1 percent.”
Ginsburg has repeatedly vowed in recent months to stay on the court as long as her health holds and she stays mentally sharp. In an interview last year, she said she loved her work and intended to continue “as long as I can do the job full-steam, and that, at my age, is not predictable.” She has had cancer twice, and has attributed her survival partly to the medical care she received at the National Institutes of Health. “Ever since my colorectal cancer in 1999, I have been followed by the NIH,” she said in the interview. “That was very lucky for me because they detected my pancreatic cancer at a very early stage” in 2009. Ginsburg was back on the bench less than three weeks after undergoing the second cancer surgery. “After the pancreatic cancer, at first I went to NIH every three months, then every four months, then every six months,” she said.
“The last time I was there they said, ‘Come back in a year.’ ” She said in the interview last year that she was working out twice Ruth Bader a week with Ginsburg a trainer, and in remarks at a bar association in February, she said the trainer “has been my physical fitness guardian since 1999.” The court’s prompt and detailed announcement of Wednesday’s heart procedure was characteristic of Ginsburg’s openness about her health and other matters. Last month, she had the court issue a statement announcing that she was correcting a factual error in a recently issued opinion.
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