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Developers must build more housing units to avert a housing crisis across socioeconomic levels, Clinton’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development said at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) last night...
...federal entitlement since 1965, a prescription-drug benefit for seniors. The official cost over 10 years is $400 billion, but given rocketing prices for drugs, it could well be far higher. At the same time, he has done nothing substantive to reform Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security to avert the looming burden of the baby boomers' retirement years...
Your report said little about how inefficient the government is in authenticating intelligence from abroad. When terrorism assumes a global character, intelligence agencies around the world need to share information to avert horrifying incidents like 9/11. Who in the government is accountable for verifying information from overseas, a major factor for the coalition-led war on Iraq? UJJWAL BHATTACHARJEE Lowell, Mass...
...Total tonnage of supplies needed to avert a severe food shortage in Ethiopia...
...Earlier reports of a popular uprising in the besieged city of Basra may have been overstated, and British forces are preparing to fight their way into the town in order to avert a humanitarian catastrophe. Hundreds of Iraqi armored vehicles left the predominantly Shiite city Wednesday, and came under air attack by coalition aircraft. And in a surprise move whose purpose is not yet clear, the Medina division of Iraq's Republican Guard sent some 1,000 armored vehicles out of Baghdad toward the frontline positions of the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division. Although such a deployment would stiffen resistance...