Ryan Gabrielson of California Watch won the state reporting prize for a series looking at how abuse at state clinics was poorly monitored and investigated by the state office responsible for doing so.

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Moreover, once the infrastructure has proved successful, further trials will be carried out to establish how many cows in a herd need to be monitored to give a reliable indication of the herd's overall state of health.

ECONOMIST: MONITOR

Clearly, our intelligence capabilities are not what they need to be when the threat comes not from weapons that can be monitored from space but from small, highly disciplined and ruthlessly secretive groups and their state sponsors.

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